The notes outrage some, who liken it to locker-room sweat, urinal cake, semen, cat feces and dead rodents.
— A fragrance description from Something in the Air at the LA Times. The article is about men’s fragrance in general; that particular description is about a men’s fragrance from a well-known designer brand. Answer below the jump…
Perfume coverage in the December issues of Allure, Details, Elle, GQ and Harper’s Bazaar; please comment on any fragrance-related coverage you’ve seen in other fashion & beauty magazines:
Cover: Taylor Swift
Scent strips: Pure DKNY, Giorgio Armani Acqua di Gioia, Versace Bright Crystal, Dior J’Adore, Calvin Klein Euphoria…
It’s here again: the annual six-week extravaganza of eating, drinking, and getting gussied up. You’ve rolled the lint off your black velvet, checked your supply of Spanx, and shined up your rhinestones. Now let’s talk about perfume possibilities for the situations we’re most likely to encounter between now and New Year’s Day.
Lucky me, my office holiday party will be in a private room at a lively bar with my terrific coworkers. We’ll be eating cake indoors while through the plate glass windows drag queens smoke cigarettes between sets at the cabaret next door. But in other jobs I’ve endured many a lunchtime potluck and white elephant gift exchange in the conference room carefully timed not to exceed the 45-minute lunch hour.
How best to prepare: Watch The Office holiday party specials, especially the British one.
What you want your perfume to say: “I’m feeling the holiday spirit, but in a restrained, professional way that does not include wearing a lampshade on my head.” Low to moderate sillage fragrances with a slightly more conservative bent might be the best bet here…
This week we’re helping Sofina, who loves perfume and wants to find a new signature scent, preferably one that everyone else isn’t already wearing. She loves to shop online, and she’d love to keep the cost under $200. Here is what we know about Sofina:
She’s almost 30 but people usually think she’s 25 or younger. Some people say she looks like a young Isabella Rossellini but her style icons are Katharine Hepburn and Lauren Bacall.
She’s a perfectionist to a fault, and a “glass half full” kind of person.
Her everyday wear is casual (jeans) but she likes to dress up for formal affairs with dramatic jewel tone colours, red lips and high heels.
Sofina loves fresh cut grass, citrus, bergamot, peppers, honeysuckle and black currant…
Michael Edwards will release the 27th edition of his “fragrance bible”, Fragrances of the World 2011, in January. The new guide lists approximately 8000 fragrances (with over 900 new additions) classified by fragrance family, and includes over 900 niche fragrances from 60 perfume houses…