Esteban has launched Esprit de Thé, a new fragrance in their Bathtime range:
A floral-musky eau de toilette in which the purity of green tea reveals a floral heart with a woody base note…
Online fragrance shopping
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Deal at malinandgoetz: take 20% off with coupon code year5, good through 3/15.
New at neimanmarcus: Burberry The Beat for Men.
New at nordstrom: Christian Dior Escale a Portofino.
Flower by Kenzo Spring Fragrance, Kenzo Amour Florale ~ new fragrances
Kenzo has introduced warm weather versions of two of their popular fragrances for women:
Flower by Kenzo Spring Fragrance / Eau de Printemps 2009 (shown above left) is a new variation on 2000's Kenzo Flower, and follows last year's Winter Flowers. Developed by perfumer Alberto Morillas, the new scent is lighter and fresher than the original, and features notes of mandarin, litchi, ginger, violet, freesia and white musk…
Annick Goutal Un Matin d’Orage ~ perfume review
Imagine yourself in a Japanese garden – a family garden, surrounded by dozens of delicate trees, grapefruit and hundreds of bushes of gardenias. It's early morning, the day after a thunderstorm. Imagine the drops of the rain on the leaves with the sun breaking through the cloud. The scent of the white gardenia is strong. With the humidity and heat, the scent emanates from the ground.*
That's Camille Goutal of Annick Goutal, explaining the inspiration for the line's latest perfume launch, Un Matin d’Orage. It's a reasonably accurate portrait of what you can expect, I suppose, although to my nose, Un Matin d'Orage is both drier and more transparent than what you'd get from “hundreds of bushes of gardenias” on a hot, humid day — and just as well, as such a thing might knock you out cold.
The opening is heavily ozonic and aquatic, and has a slight mineral aspect; overall, it nicely conveys the sense of “after the storm”. The gardenia and magolia stand out most clearly in the dry down…
Where the money goes
When a perfume does succeed, the profits are formidable all around. The laboratory sells the juice to the licensee at two and a half times the cost. The licensee sells it at retail for two to four times its cost and earns about 30 to 40 percent in profits. The licensee then pays the luxury brand royalties for use of the name.
— From Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas (p. 163).