Kenzo is holding a Mother's Day contest on Twitter, today only, for US residents:
Entrants just simply follow @kenzousa and tweet the following: Enter to win a KenzoAmour Gift Set! Follow @kenzousa and retweet.
The contest ends at 12 noon today; five winners will get a KenzoAmour Gift Set. (via press release)
Le Couvent des Minimes will launch Orange Blossom / Fleur de Oranger this month.* The fragrance is a limited edition, and hopes to evoke a “spring walk in a field of Mediterranean orange trees”.
The notes feature tangerine, raspberry, orange, orange blossom, jasmine, petitgrain, vanilla, musk and precious wood…
Alliance Française de San Diego presents a talk with perfumer Christophe Laudamiel:
« Senior Perfumer », « Invisible Designer », « Perfume Designer » … So many titles, yet non sum up the full extent of Christophe Laudamiel’s creativity. For 8 years, he worked for International Flavor and Fragrances in New York, where he produced an impressive number of creations for some of the biggest names in fashion…
The new Chanel No. 5 commercial, starring Audrey Tautou and Travis Davenport, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. This is the 1 minute version; you can watch the longer version at chaneln5.
The music is Billie Holiday singing I’m A Fool To Want You.
Update: today is Chanel No. 5 Day in New York City; more after the jump…
There’s a good chance that some of your first memories of perfume were of Avon. Maybe it was the fragrances themselves: Cotillion, Sweet Honesty, Timeless, or Bird of Paradise were a few. Or, more likely, it was the bottles shaped like everything from pianos to Model T cars to colonial dames. If you haven’t looked at an Avon catalog lately, you’re in for a surprise. First, no more kitschy bottles. Your chance to own Timeless bottled in a giant penny is gone. Next, although Sweet Honesty survived, most of the old perfumes have been replaced with newer, sexier products, like Imari, Christian Lacroix Rouge, and, yes, Bond Girl 007.
Avon began its life in 1886 in upstate New York as The California Perfume Company. David McConnell, who started the company, stumbled on the idea of selling perfume when he found that the free rose oil samples he handed out so that ladies would listen to his pitch to buy books were more popular than the books themselves. With the help of a local pharmacist he created the company’s first collection of fragrances, called Little Dot Perfumes. In 1939, The California Perfume Company changed its name to Avon. Avon still sells its products door-to-door, but now you can also buy them online or at special boutiques in malls.
Avon launched Bond Girl 007 in fall 2008 to coincide with the release of the new Bond film, Quantum of Solace…