A promo for the new Kate Spade Twirl.
Floris 280 ~ new fragrance
Floris has launched Floris 280, a new limited edition floriental fragrance for women celebrating the house’s 280th anniversary:
Only 280 bottles have been produced…
Gucci Guilty ~ fragrance review
If you’ve been following perfume news over the past month or so, you’ve probably noticed that Gucci Guilty is one of this fall’s major launches, complete with full-page ads and scent strips in fashion magazines, a movie-star “face,” a television commercial with a theme song, a somewhat hyperbolic press release, a tie-in to the MTV Video Music Awards, and the now-requisite Facebook page. It’s being promoted as a fragrance for a “21st Century beauty” who is “young, audacious, discerning…an iconoclast who lives life at full throttle…sexy and slightly dangerous.”
Guilty’s bottle is certainly eye-catching: it looks like an oversized, gilded (gilty?) Gucci purse clasp or belt buckle, with its unmistakable interlocking “G”s creating a window onto the juice inside. Gucci devotees will want to own Guilty for the container alone. The fragrance is classified as a floriental, with notes of mandarin, pink pepper, peach, lilac, geranium, amber, and patchouli.
Guilty seems to be more of a sheer, fruity oriental than a floral oriental…
NST book club in October: Remembering Smell by Bonnie Blodgett
I recently heard an interview with Bonnie Blodgett (shown above right), who wrote a memoir about the experience of losing and rediscovering the sense of smell. I am intrigued, and have placed this book at the top of my reading list.
If you, too, have read or are planning to read Remembering Smell, let’s chat about it. How about an October book club…
It touches everything
Actress Diane Kruger for the new Calvin Klein Beauty.