Dolce & Gabbana’s D&G line will launch The D&G Fragrance Anthology in September. The five fragrances, Le Bateleur 1, L’Imperatrice 3, L’Amoureaux 6, La Roue de la Fortune 10 and La Lune 18, were “inspired by different tarot cards, each with a distinct identity and represented by a different model, some of them iconic and all of them naked in the advertising”.
Le Bateleur 1 (shown above right) ~ the ad features Tyson Ballou, the fragrance has aromatic and aquatic notes, cedar and vetiver…
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Estée Lauder will launch Private Collection Jasmine White Moss in July. The third perfume in the modern Private Collection series (it follows Private Collection Tuberose Gardenia and Private Collection Amber Ylang Ylang) is based on an unfinished fragrance that Estée Lauder herself had been working on in the 1980s.
Private Collection Jasmine White Moss is a green floral chypre…
Flora is lighter, the floral scent of course evokes a younger consumer, and she has a hedonistic, daring side. I don’t want to say that Flora is the daughter of Gucci by Gucci but maybe the younger sister.*
That’s Frida Giannini, Gucci’s creative director, explaining how Gucci’s new Flora fragrance fits into the larger scheme of things. I’m guessing she didn’t want to call Flora the daughter of Gucci by Gucci because she didn’t want to position Gucci by Gucci as so very old as all that, but in fact the two are light years apart — as near as I can tell, the “woods for women” / “masculine notes for women” (or whatever you want to call it) trend that Gucci by Gucci rode in on is over almost before we had time to adjust to it. Flora smells very of-the-moment: it’s light, clean, fresh and pretty, which I hope is what perfume consumers were after this spring because there’s plenty of it on the counters at the moment.
The notes for Flora are listed as citrus, peony, rose, osmanthus, pink pepper, sandalwood and patchouli, but they don’t matter too much: this is a sheer, almost-sparkling floral, very pale and clean, in which nothing stands out other than the peony…
Les Parfums Suspendus is a new French niche line inspired by the Hanging Gardens of Babylon:
Once upon a time, in Babylon, there were some extraordinary gardens …
Out of passionate love, King Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 B.C.) wanted to create some wonderful gardens to dazzle Queen Amyitis with their surprising luxuriance and scents…