Parfums M Micallef has launched Mon Parfum, a new fragrance for women:
Mon Parfum was created originally by Geoffrey Newman, Martine Micallef’s husband as a gift to his wife, a scent all of her own. It took years of persuasion by friends for her to finally release the beautiful fragrance as part of her collection…
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Hugo Boss will launch Boss Orange, a new fragrance for women fronted by actress Sienna Miller, in June. It is the first women’s perfume from the Boss Orange label, which is described as sportier than the Hugo and Boss Black lines.
The Boss Orange fragrance is described as “sensual and luminous”…
A report of a man waving a gun inside Goodwill, 904 S. Main St., resulted in a Fond du Lac County Sheriff's Department deputy taking the man into custody...The man was released after a brief investigation revealed the suspect took a pistol-shaped perfume bottle out of a box, according to the police report.
— From Man questioned about perfume bottle 'gun' at fdlreporter.
After my Yves Saint Laurent L’Homme review posted last week, many men wrote me at my Now Smell This email address “confessing” their love for L’Homme; these men were unwilling to “admit” their admiration for L’Homme in my review’s comments section because I called the fragrance “standard-issue men’s perfume.” I think women are more willing to proclaim: “Call this perfume crap if you like…but I LOVE it!” All you sensitive perfumistos out there: I have a confession to make — I, too, like my fair share of “standard-issue” men’s fragrances.
Perfume addicts are inclined to enjoy categories of scents: ambers, vanilla fragrances, rose perfumes, mossy aldehydes…. Me? I like citrus perfumes, leather scents, smoky/incense fragrances, and vetiver and tea colognes of all types. If I come across a fragrance full of lemon, orange, petitgrain, a hint of vetiver and wood — chances are good I’ll enjoy it, even if there are 100 other fragrances that smell pretty much the same. Today’s scent, Diesel Only the Brave, is not innovative or “strange”, not by a long shot (it reminds me of Zirh Ikon for one), but I’m partial to its components, and I like it.
Only the Brave contains lemon, leather, cedar and amber. The fragrance opens with an ozone-lemon accord which is followed by a talc-y (super-light) leather note…