New at colette (Paris): Juliette Has A Gun Calamity J.
New at luckyscent: L'Artisan Havana Vanille (pre-order).
New at nordstrom: Sisley Eau de Soir & Soir de Lune limited edition collector bottles.
New at ronrobinson: Six Scents Series 2.
Shantara Shaman ~ new fragrance
Swiss brand Shantara will follow Rêve Etoilé, their debut fragrance, with Shaman, a new natural fragrance for men.
Shaman is a fresh woody scent that “evokes the virgin forest”…
Naomi Campbell lawsuit
Moodform Mission, a company that helped Naomi Campbell market some of her fragrances, is suing her for non-payment. If you really need to know more, see here, here, here or here.
Sabon Essence of Pleasure ~ new fragrances
Israel-based bath & beauty company Sabon has launched a new range of fragrances under the name Essence of Pleasure. There are six “daily perfumes” and two “boutique perfumes”. The daily perfumes are:
Aviv (shown above left) ~ “spring, the reawakening of life from a sleepy winter…”
Weird robotic reek
The K-9 Unit of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, while training seven recently acquired cell-phone-sniffing dogs, first put a whole bunch of cell-phone parts in a plastic box to create a kind of sachet of cell-phone scent for use in imprinting. The basic, pervasive cell-phone smell that built up in the closed box was powerful—a sweetish, metallic, ozoney, weird robotic reek.
— Ian Frazier in Scratch and Sniff at The New Yorker.