John Galliano will launch Parlez-Moi d’Amour, a new fragrance for women, in October. Parlez-Moi d’Amour, which is fronted by Taylor Momsen, is meant as an ode to love and is geared towards a younger audience than Galliano’s debut scent, 2008’s John Galliano for women…
Eau Duelle is Diptyque’s new unisex fragrance. The description — a fragrance that follows vanilla on its journey along the spice route — and the notes1 both sounded perfect. I’m fond of Diptyque, anyway: I love the vintage-look black and white packaging, and they happen to make two of my favorite reading-in-bed perfumes of all time: Philosykos and Tam Dao.
When I reviewed their last fragrance, Vetyverio, I noted that it started “out bright and fresh and energetic”, and that the dry down was “an exercise in subtlety”. The trajectory here is quite similar. Eau Duelle’s opening is vibrant: it smells just like a vanilla gin martini with a twist of citrus peel. Then the spices come on fast, with a lovely overload of cardamom, and shortly after that there is a nice whiff of black tea and a whoosh of incense.
Then it all sort of quiets down…
A promo for Jean Paul Gaultier's new Le Mâle Terrible. If you don't recognize the opening sequence, you might have missed the latest commercial for the original Le Mâle.
(found at 1000fragrances.blogspot)
Burberry will launch new limited edition versions of Burberry Brit for men and women in October. The new duo “captures the atmosphere of the British winter season”…
Concept bottles, unfortunately, but I would buy one in a heartbeat. From the Polish design firm Ah&Oh (and there are some wonderful closeups at their website) found via The Essence of an Author…Contained in a Perfume Bottle at Design Taxi. Shown are the bottles for George Orwell, Edgar Allan Poe and Marquis de Sade; there is also a bottle for Pierre Choderlos de Laclos.