New at beautyhabit: Diptyque Vetyverio.
New at luckyscent: XerJoff line.
New at macys: Eva by Eva Longoria.
Deal at parfumsraffy: take 10% off with coupon code Spring2010, good through 5/31. New items include Tous H2O.
New at yvesrocherusa: Flowerparty, Aquarelles Vegetales.
DelRae Roth of Parfums DelRae will be at Barneys in New York City this Saturday, May 29th, to introduce her new fragrance, Coup de Foudre.
The event will take place from 11 am to 5 pm at Barneys New York at 660 Madison Avenue, The Foundation (lower level). (via newsletter from Parfums DelRae)
If I were looking at this post, I might be thinking, “What the heck is XerJoff? Another new, expensive niche brand? This is ridiculous! I don’t have the time for this — I haven’t even worked my way through all the old Rochas.” And then I’d click over to Perfume Posse to see what March is up to or to The Selby or somewhere else. I understand. However, after sniffing my way all 12 of the XerJoff Shooting Stars collection, I think a lot of perfume lovers will want to know about XerJoff, even if they never end up smelling any of them.
At first, XerJoff is not promising. The XerJoff website is vague, and its English copy is wretchedly written, full of misspellings and nonsensical descriptions. I can’t find much information about the company itself. The website is offered in Russian, English, and Italian, and judging from the state of the English, you’ll soon guess the company is Russian or Italian (it is, in fact, Italian with a market in Russia.) The website tells us the Shooting Stars collection of fragrances is named after a meteorite that fell in Siberia in 1947. A piece of the meteorite is worked into the collar of each of the bottles. None of the names of the fragrances make any sense to an English speaker, except perhaps “Shingl,” which sounds like a painful medical condition.
But most of the XerJoff Shooting Star Eau de Parfums, while not startlingly original, are marvels of gorgeous materials and careful craftsmanship. I’ve chosen two to review, Ibitira and Oesel, not so much because they’re the fragrances I admire most of the collection, but because they’re the fragrances I most see myself wearing…
Chanel will launch Bleu de Chanel, a new fragrance for men, in late summer. The name is taken from a Chanel fragrance of the 1930s. The advertising will feature French actor Gaspard Ulliel directed by Martin Scorsese…
Although the rooms all have ostensible functions, most are rarely used; their raisons d’être are visual, not practical. The most conventionally domestic section of the house is an inner sanctum that Lutens calls “the apartment,” which he once planned to inhabit, though he could never quite bring himself to move in. “So there’s an office with no purpose, a bedroom where I’ve never slept, a bathtub where I’ve never, ever taken a bath,” he says. There’s also a small TV room, but you can guess how many World Cup matches Lutens has watched in it. He has flipped on the TV only once, for a few seconds, to make sure it worked.
— From Casbah Confidential, an article in the June issue of W Magazine about the house in Marrakech that Serge Lutens has been renovating for the last 35 years. Lutens apparently goes there in the afternoons, but sleeps elsewhere. The article is not online, but you can see the (wonderful) pictures by Patrice Nagel here. (via press release)