Frederic Malle will be appearing at several Barneys locations to introduce his home fragrance line:
“Freddie is like a fabulous character out of Proust. The mysterious cult of Frederic Malle…”
Ebba Los Angeles Boho collection ~ new perfumes
Ebba Los Angeles has launched the Boho collection:
Ebba’s new BOHO line introduces four deliciously captivating scents that are elegant, whimsical and dreamy. Inspired by the Gypsy in all of us…
Paco Rabanne Lady Million ~ brief perfume review
Lady Million is Paco Rabanne’s newish feminine counterpart to 1 Million, a fragrance that I liked even less than Kevin did — in fact, the only thing I liked about 1 Million was the fun commercial.
The commercial for Lady Million was a little less fun — it was so much like the 1 Million commercial that it seemed like an afterthought — but I like the fragrance a little better. The start is rocky: mega-sweet neon fruit punch over a darkish base, and for a moment or two I thought we were going down the same candied road as Black XS, or any number of the loud fruitcholi perfumes of the past couple years. But it dries down reasonably quickly into your basic ambery-musky woods…
A spirit of humor and poetry
Perfumer Olivier Polge talks about his collaboration with Italian design firm Fornasetti on their new home fragrance line, Fornasetti Profumi Per La Casa. [note: unfortunate camera shake and background noise] You can read more about the line, and see some pictures, at Cosmetics Business.
Update: The line will reportedly be available at Barneys in the US.
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2010, part 16
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Thierry Mugler, a 100 ml bottle of A*Men with a wearable leather bracelet (shown above left). For the women, Angel in 10 ml Extrait de Parfum with Swarovski crystals…