New at bluemercury: Frederic Fekkai Sensuelle Eau De Parfum.
New at escentual (UK): Christian Dior Escale à Pondichéry.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Comme des Garcons Daphne, Dover Street Market, Comme des Garcons 2 Glitter Special Edition.
New at luckyscent: Comme des Garcons + Artek Standard, CB I Hate Perfume M#3 November, Ulrich Lang Nightscape.
The ad spot for Carolina Herrera's new CH Men. The music is I'm A Terrible Person by Rooney.
A longer piece for CH Men, Travel Diaries (about 8 minutes), shows Carolina Herrera (the daughter) talking to 8 men about the qualities that make up the CH man.
Yardley has launched the Heritage Collection, comprising three new fragrances for women described as “modern beauty classics inspired by English florals”.
Yardley Geranium ~ “This beautiful fragrance captures the English aroma of fresh Geraniums as they blossom and hit the sunshine…”
The downtown Goodwill has been good to me. Over the past year alone, it has yielded a bottle of vintage Guerlain Mitsouko Parfum de Toilette, a pair of midcentury Carlo of Hollywood watercolors, and a taxidermied pheasant (now in my office and nicknamed “Fester” by the finance department). Two weeks ago, I really hit the jackpot: copy number 172 of Visionaire No. 42, Scent.1
Of course, I had no idea what it was when I found it. Sitting on Goodwill’s perfume shelf next to bottles of Prince Matchabelli Wind Song, Liz Claiborne Realities, and a few other fragrances I found easy to pass by was a rectangular, white padded-vinyl box with nearly inscrutable lettering stamped into the vinyl. I did, though, recognize “IFF” stamped at the top…
Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian will be making an appearance at Liberty of London this Thursday, October 22nd to introduce the new Maison Francis Kurkdjian line. The general appearance is from 4:30 to 8:30 in the Perfume Hall.
Basenotes is also holding a competition: the first 15 people to email info@basenotes.net with a name and contact number can join Mr. Kurkdjian for afternoon tea before the 4:30 appearance.