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The Body Shop has launched Lychee Blossom / Fleur de Litchi, a new “fresh and energizing” limited edition fragrance for women…
One of perfumer Pierre Guillaume’s inspirations for the new limited edition Parfumerie Generale Bois Naufragé was a photograph by Lucien Clergue — Le Nu au Bois Flotté [Ed note: the image is NSFW]. Taking into consideration the photo (showing a naked woman lying on a huge piece of driftwood) and the fragrance’s name (“shipwrecked wood”), I was imagining a salty perfume (salt of the ocean, salty skin), a perfume with a silky, sun-dried, and yes, salty, wood note combining with the scents of seaweed and sand. I was preparing myself for a summer sea breeze in a bottle, and Bois Naufragé’s fragrance notes gave me hope: carob tree, fleur de sel and ambergris.
Bois Naufragé starts with a sweet-milky accord that reminds me of candied figs stuffed with coconut: NOT what I was expecting. The ‘fig’ note loses a bit of its sweetness during the initial dry-down as a touch of mild, “green” musk emerges. I don’t find Bois Naufragé particularly “salty” but the fleur in fleur de sel is apparent in a sheer floral note, smelling a bit like “flat” jasmine mixed with tonka bean/vanilla. Most of Bois Naufragé’s “wood” must have been washed back out to sea…
Up for grabs: one 100 ml bottle of the new Nicole Miller by Nicole Miller (originally announced as Nicole Miller Frenzy, but they seem to have changed the name before the final launch). I’ve decanted about 5 ml — I keep the sample, you get the bottle.
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It's the last week to vote for your favorite fragrances in the 2010 Fifi Awards program. Voting ends May 19th; you can cast your vote here.
