Chemical identifiers secreted from the genital glands of lemurs, allow them to avoid incest and also to engage in nepotism. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology have identified the smells used by both male and female ring-tailed lemurs to advertize their family ties.
— From Scent signals stop incest in lemurs at Physorg.
Serge Lutens will launch L’Eau Serge Lutens, a new unisex fragrance, in March. The clean scent is meant to appeal to a wider audience than the prior scents in the line, and to do well in the Japanese market, where lighter, cleaner fragrances are preferred…
My first niche perfume purchase was a bottle of Etro Vetiver Eau de Cologne way back in 1990. I bought Vetiver, along with some wonderful Etro soaps, at Etro’s Beverly Hills boutique, and I became an instant Etro fragrance fan. Over the years, I’ve owned several bottles of Etro Vetiver, Sandalo and Magot; I’ve also enjoyed bottles of Messe de Minuit (the fragrance that helped launch the Incense Revolution in perfumery) and Patchouly. In the early Nineties, Etro’s perfumes smelled exciting, rich and different to my baby “department store-trained” nose and a new, expensive, niche perfume passion was born. Etro led to Comptoir Sud Pacifique, which led to Jean-François Laporte (L’Artisan Parfumeur), which led to Creed, which led to Czech & Speake, which led to Penhaligon’s…on and on to this day.
Etro Vetiver, by perfumer Jacques Flori, was released in 1989 and lists notes of artemisia, clary sage, cypress, cedar, tobacco and Bourbon vetiver. Etro Vetiver opens with green artemisia and sage; the herbal, forest-y notes are strong and clear — invigorating…
Osmoz has launched two new olfactory kits in their Les coulisses du parfum series, Vibrations of Spices and Delicious Gourmand Notes:
Volume IV, Vibrations of Spices (shown above), with clove, nutmeg, saffron, coriander, black pepper, Sichuan pepper, pink pepper, ginger, cardamom, everlasting, cinnamon and cumin…
Jill Stuart has launched Night Jewel, a new perfume for women:
A fairy tale that invites you to sparkle, just like Cinderella.
A tale told through a fragrance,
with the birth of a dramatic perfume…