New at bloomingdales: Aramis Gentleman's Collection, Issey Miyake a scent by issey miyake.
New at nordstrom: Issey Miyake a scent by issey miyake.
New at shopmiomia: Lubin line, Ulrich Lang Nightscape, Juliette Has a Gun purse bullets.
New at yvesrocherusa: Fleur de Noel, Tendre Jasmin.
Salvatore Ferragamo will launch Incanto Bloom next March. The new fragrance targets a more sophisticated audience than the prior flankers in the Incanto series (Incanto Dream, Incanto Charms, Incanto Shine, Incanto Heaven, Incanto Bliss)…
Last week, I read an interesting article in the New York Times1 regarding the falling prices of “premium” blue jeans; reporter Eric Wilson wrote: “The $300 pair of designer jeans is now, courtesy of the recession, the $200 pair of designer jeans.” And what does “premium” mean exactly — “…you had to pay a premium to wear them (the jeans) …. Designers found they could charge a lot for the perception of prestige.”
Niche perfume prices have increased dramatically over the last several years, but the higher prices don’t guarantee outstanding, strikingly original perfumes. Expensive fragrance lines justify their prices and lure consumers with: “rare” and “precious” ingredients; deluxe packaging; restricted availability; flattery (Connoisseurs of fine fragrance will recognize the brilliance of this perfume!); and prices so steep only the “Elite” (YOU!) can afford to buy them.
The NYT article concludes: “Like any commodity that becomes overpriced, there eventually comes a market correction.” While we’re waiting for that correction in the perfume realm, I’ll review two expensive By Kilian scents.
Pure Oud is the first perfume in By Kilian’s “Arabian Nights” fragrance collection; it was developed by perfumer Calice Becker and lists notes of oud, saffron, copahu balm, amber, gaiac wood, cypriol, cistus labdanum, myrrh and animalic notes…
Japanese beauty brand Annayake will launch Miyabi Woman and Miyabi Man in December. The new fragrances reportedly embody “Japanese elegance”…
Bai Yun is curious, unpredictable, and mischievous. She enjoys anything scented with cloves or pine and men's cologne!
— From Meet the Pandas at the San Diego Zoo, where the the pandas "like to play with enrichment items like piles of ice or sawdust, puzzles made of bamboo with food inside, and different scents like spices". At the moment of this writing, you can watch Bai Yun sleeping in the birthing den on the zoo's Panda Cam. Many thanks to JanJan for the link.