Jesús Del Pozo will launch Ambar in late August. The new fragrance for women celebrates the designer’s 35 years in fashion.
Ambar was developed by perfumer Marie Salamagne…
Online fragrance shopping
New at escentual (UK): Clarins Eau des Jardins.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Profumi del Forte Versilia Platinum, Montale Mango Manga.
Deal at miomia: take 15% off with coupon code NOWSMELLTHIS15, good through 6/20. Also, spend $300 or more and get a free 15 ml Histoires de Parfums 1969 rollon, offer good while supplies last.
New at nordstrom: Lacoste Essential Sport.
Deal at ulta: get free shipping with orders of $25 or more using coupon code 35372, good through 6/19.
Hanae Mori No. 2 ~ new perfume
Hanae Mori will launch the second fragrance in the Eau de Collection range this August. Like Hanae Mori No. 1, the new Hanae Mori No. 2 was “created using renewable energy sources”; this time, a portion of the proceeds will go to the non-profit American Rivers…
Difficult smells
And what an issue it’s turned out to be – mono.kultur #23 contains no visual imagery but clears the page for our most primary sense: the magazine will be impregnated with 12 scents curated by Sissel Tolaas. And we’re not talking about perfumes either, but what Tolaas would coin ‘difficult smells’. With a special technique called microencapsulation, the scents are literally printed into the magazine – you rub the paper to release them…
— The latest issue of German arts magazine mono.kultur features scent artist Sissel Tolaas. Read more at Life is Everywhere. (found via newslite.tv)
Masculinity by Intense ~ fragrance review
Masculinity by Intense (a.k.a. “N10Z”) is a pheromone fragrance designed to enhance “male-to-male” attraction. I’ve never understood pheromone perfumes. I naturally secrete pheromones, so why do I need to add more pheromones to my body with a fragrance? If pheromones encourage others to come my way, does adding extra pheromones to my person provide too much of a good thing? Will the Human Hurricane of Pheromones I’ll become by wearing a pheromone-rich fragrance make people want to know me…or devour me? Can wearing a pheromone perfume be dangerous?
If Val Lewton were alive I’d pitch him a movie: Fatal Attractant
Place: Coastal university town
Who/What: A lonely (and lazy) gay science professor, Mr. Y, concocts a pheromone spray that will render him enticing to other gay men At first, the pheromone spray works: men notice him, chat him up. Then…his clothes disappear from the clothesline; peeping toms stare into his home; male students loiter at his university office door. As Mr. Y’s natural pheromones interact with the laboratory-made pheromone spray, things go awry; everywhere he goes he is followed, groped, manhandled. Mr. Y’s auto insurance rates rise as men in speeding cars ram into his bumper…