Alberta Ferretti and Claudia Schiffer will be at Harrods in London on Wednesday November 4th to present the new Alberta Ferretti fragrance:
Supermodel Claudia Schiffer and fashion designer to the stars, Alberta Ferretti, will be appearing in store…
His & hers
Models Robert Perovich and Michelle Buswell in a new campaign for Jean Paul Gaultier’s Le Mâle and Classique fragrances, shot by Jean-Baptiste Mondino. His first, hers below the jump.
Vera Wang Glam Princess ~ new fragrance
Vera Wang will launch Glam Princess, a new flanker to 2006’s Vera Wang Princess, in December.
Glam Princess was developed by perfumers Ilias Ermenidis and Harry Fremont…
Titan arum blooming in Madison, Wisconsin
The smell of something rotten is blooming in Wisconsin. Officials at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens in Madison said the "titan arum," better known as the "corpse flower" is sprouting.
— From Corpse Flower To Bloom in Wisconsin. You can read more at the Olbrich Botanical Gardens website (and scroll down for lots of photos). If anyone goes to see (smell!) it, do report back.
Viktor & Rolf Eau Mega ~ perfume review
We are not interested in niche. Fashion is already for a small audience. We like to communicate with as many people as possible.1
That’s Viktor Horsting of Viktor & Rolf, explaining the “blatantly commercial”2 appeal of their debut fragrance for women, Flowerbomb. Anyone hoping that they’d go for an edgier aesthetic with their followup, the newly launched Eau Mega, will be disappointed: Flowerbomb, while neither edgy nor esoteric, was somewhat over-the-top; Eau Mega, with its “extravagant freshness”3, is the sort of clean and pleasant and safe thing anybody could wear anytime, and presumably, Viktor & Rolf very much hope they will.
The tag line for Eau Mega is Megafy Yourself, and the fragrance…
…celebrates a new icon of femininity, in the form of a superheroine who, aided by her fragrance, transforms reality into her own universe of beauty and glamour and “megafies” the world.4
What does this megafied superheroine smell like? Well, like melon water and pear…