Yves Rocher has launched Aquarelles Végétales Eau Fruitée pour l’été, a new fragrance for their recently launched limited edition Aquarelles Végétales summer makeup range…
Online fragrance shopping
New at beauty.com: Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Lavender, L'Occitane Peony.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Tauer Perfumes Orange Star.
Philosophy Eternal Grace ~ new perfume
Philosophy has launched Eternal Grace, a new fragrance for women. Eternal Grace joins the prior fragrances Amazing Grace and Inner Grace.
What it is: A crisp, contemporary scent…
Not safe. Safe.
Many top-selling fragrance products - from Britney Spears' Curious and Calvin Klein Eternity, to Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce and Old Spice body spray - contain a dozen or more secret chemicals not listed on labels, multiple chemicals that can trigger allergic reactions or disrupt hormones, and many substances that have not been assessed for safety by the beauty industry's self-policing review panels, according to a study released today by Environmental Defence Canada and the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics in the United States (U.S.).
— Read the rest at Hazardous Chemicals Revealed in Celebrity Perfumes, Teen Body Sprays at Digital Journal.
According to the Personal Care Product Council’s chief scientist John Bailey, a new report alleging that many popular perfumes contain “secret” ingredients that could cause harm to consumers “grossly misrepresents the science on fragrance ingredients and presents a distorted picture of how they are regulated and labeled."
— Read the rest at The Council Blasts EWG’s ‘Report’ on Fragrances at Happi.
Comme des Garcons + Undercover Holygrace, Holygrapie ~ fragrance review
So designer Jun Takahashi of the ‘cult’ fashion house Undercover makes dolls. They’re called Graces, and he makes them out of metal and teddy bears and light bulbs and other things. According to Takahashi,
The Graces spontaneously come out of me, genuinely, while making clothes is something more calculated, an entire process that requires teamwork. But doing both allows me to keep a balance in my creativity. Therefore, it makes sense to me to have everything linked.1
You can find detailed articles about the Graces here and here, and you can watch a video made in conjunction with the launch of the new Undercover fragrances, Holygrace and Holygrapie, here.
The fragrances, made in collaboration with Comme des Garçons, are conceptually linked to the dolls, and there are reportedly limited edition bottles (you can see them here if you scroll down) decorated with similar fabric elements. Holygrace (shown below right) is for the mother doll, and is supposed to be “a perfume of elegance, soap freshness and poison”. It starts with citrus and hot peppery spices (the notes: bergamot, ginger, pink pepper, cardamom, jasmine, frankincense, pimento, ambergris, vetiver, vanilla and styrax), and dries down to a softly spicy, somewhat clean incense with amber and light hints of vanilla. It’s quite wearable and perfectly unisex…