US-based beauty brand Chantecaille will launch a new trio of fragrances for women, Kalimantan, Pétales and Vetyver, later this month:
Kalimantan (shown) ~ “Warm, woodsy, sensual, rich, and deeply exotic. Kalimantan is a bold, intense fragrance…”
Online fragrance shopping
New at dillards: Jessica Simpson Fancy Nights.
New at harrods (UK): Estee Lauder Sensuous Noir.
New at macys: Estee Lauder Pleasures Bloom.
Deal at parfumsraffy: today only, take 12% off with coupon code Bonus12. Starting tomorrow through 8/11, take 10% off with coupon code August2010.
New at sephora: Paco Rabanne Lady Million & 1 Million, Acqua di Parma Colonia Essenza.
Bliss Eau de Toilette ~ new fragrance
Spa skincare brand Bliss has launched Bliss Eau de Toilette:
This “in-spa-rational” fragrance captures the essence of Bliss spas: the best possible feeling in the world…
60,000 units
HSN, a leading multichannel retailer, announced today that its exclusive launch of Mary J. Blige's My Life fragrance on July 31 drove the sale of more than 60,000 units with about 6 hours of air time, shattering fragrance records at HSN for units sold and placing the launch amongst the most successful in the prestige fragrance market.
— Via Mary J. Blige Shatters Prestige Fragrance Records Selling More Than 60,000 Units of My Life at PR Newswire.
Ralph Lauren Big Pony Fragrance Collection ~ fragrance reviews
I’ve never had much luck with Ralph Lauren fragrances. I like Polo and used to wear Monogram (discontinued long ago), but no other Ralph Lauren cologne has excited me. The new Big Pony Fragrance Collection, aimed at 18-30-year-old men, isn’t cutting-edge, but all four fragrances are well-made and perfectly formulated for their target audience: young men who — from what I see and hear in the shops and smell on the streets — don’t want “weird” perfumes, but prefer familiar-smelling, not-too-complex, clean/fresh fragrances.
Big Pony No. 1 (the “sporty” offering of the collection, in the blue bottle) is one of my Big Pony favorites; it lists only notes of lime and grapefruit, but I detect strong lemon peel-bergamot during its opening. After the lemon-bergamot burns off, I smell an aromatic lime-grapefruit accord that reminds me of a drink made of one part spicy ginger ale to one part Fresca (lime wedge squeezed on top). Big Pony No. 1 is “fizzy,” crisp, refreshing and clean with only the tiniest driblet of light musk in the extreme dry-down…