Ava Luxe has launched two new perfumes, Amande and Oeillet.
Amande ~ “A sweet almond confection – sugary and musky…”
Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial ~ new fragrance
Guerlain will launch Shalimar Parfum Initial in March. Shalimar Parfum Initial is a flanker to the iconic Shalimar fragrance (1925) and follows numerous modern variations on the theme, including Shalimar Ode à la Vanille, Fleur de Shalimar, Eau de Shalimar, Shalimar Light and Shalimar Eau Légère…
Online fragrance shopping
Flowers and spice and everything nice
A short film (about 13 minutes) from Avon about the joy of living with fragrance. I don't know when it was made (early 1960s, I'd guess), but it's from the time when flowers still came from Grasse and perfumes included real animal ingredients (civet, musk, ambergris). And if this woman is any guide, women used gallons and gallons of perfume.
Thanks to Angie & Joe for the link!
Update: video no longer available, sorry!
Parfums de Nicolai Kiss Me Tender ~ perfume review
Parfums de Nicolaï’s new Kiss Me Tender was advertised as a fragrance that “takes you from vanilla to aniseed, via almonds and freshly-cut hay” — hard to resist, at least for me. That it was centered around heliotrope is something I kept in the back of my head as a warning, heliotrope not being a favorite note of mine, at least, not in heavy concentrations.
The opening is bright, sweet and spicy, and it’s strong. If you find it hard going, hang on: Kiss Me Tender is as soft and bashfully romantic as its name within 20 minutes. The ad copy mentions Jordan almonds, and if you picture them in mixed pastels you’ll get the idea, although the marshmallow hearts shown above are perhaps a better fit. This is a pale, fluffy gourmand-floral vanilla, very feminine, with mild green notes countering the sweetness in the early stages…