French jewelry line Reminiscence will launch Jammin’ Vibration in February. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 2006’s Jammin, billed as “the first musical fragrance” and a “tribute to Jamaica”…
Biggest men’s fragrance premiere ever
Still, a designer fragrance remains a quintessential holiday gift because it’s seen as a way to bestow an affordable whiff of luxury from top-tier brands. Introduced this fall, Bleu de Chanel was not only a top Christmas seller for Bloomingdale’s, but the chain’s biggest men’s fragrance premiere ever, said Howard Kreitzman, its vice president for cosmetics and fragrances.
— From Smells like 2010 at the New York Times.
Guerlain Shalimar Ode a la Vanille ~ fragrance review
I had little hope Guerlain Shalimar Ode à la Vanille would be a good perfume. Ode à la Vanille PR didn’t stress the fragrance but the Jade Jagger redesign of the Shalimar bottle, which Guerlain is using for Shalimar Eau de Parfum and Shalimar Ode à la Vanille. Harrods even had an online feature showing Jagger, looking a bit uncomfortable at a desk, ‘sketching’ her designs. Harrods listed the iconic perfume as “Shalimar by Jade Jagger”!
Guerlain house perfumer Thierry Wasser developed the new, vanilla-enriched Shalimar Ode à la Vanille; it includes fragrance notes of lemon, bergamot, rose, jasmine, iris, incense, opoponax, tonka bean and two types of “infused” vanilla: Madagascar vanilla and Mayotte vanilla. Shalimar Ode à la Vanille starts off with a wonderful leather-tinged bergamot-lemon note. Quickly, Shalimar Ode à la Vanille begins to smell “creamy” — like a chilled vanilla-citrus custard. The florals, especially the rose and jasmine, are discernible in mid-development but really become apparent in Ode à la Vanille’s extreme dry-down. As Shalimar Ode à la Vanille segues from middle to base notes it becomes amber-y-floral — first, with dark vanilla, opoponax, a hint of frankincense, some tonka bean and leather-musk notes, then with a vanillic flower accord. (There’s also a transitory indolic note that stays close to skin.) Shalimar Ode à la Vanille smells natural and delicious…
A new type of national symbol
Lithuania is pioneering a new type of national symbol to convey the character of the ex-Soviet Baltic state in a fragrant way with a bottle of perfume. [...]
The perfume "Lithuania" is a blend of sandalwood, cedar and musk intended to connote the Indo-European origins of the Lithuanian language as well as Lithuanian strength of character, its designer says.
— From Lithuania launches national perfume at Yahoo News.
Lacoste Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 collection ~ new fragrances
Coming next month from Lacoste, the Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 collection, a trio of maculine fragrances inspired by the brand’s iconic L.12.12 alligator polo shirts…