Los Angeles designer Jane Booke has introduced Taken, a new vanilla fragrance:
Vanilla, at its luxurious best…
L’Artisan Parfumeur Voleur de Roses ~ fragrance review
When I choose a wine, I often take one of two approaches. I’ll select a wine that complements dinner, but doesn’t match it — a spicy Gewürztraminer or honeyed Chenin Blanc for Thai food, for instance. Or, I’ll choose a wine that blends with dinner — for example, a barely oaked Chardonnay with roast chicken. I tend to do the same thing when I choose the day’s perfume. On a rainy day like today with leaf rot in the streets, I might go for the complement and choose a warm, soft fragrance. Flower by Kenzo Oriental, maybe. But if I were going to choose a scent that feels like today in all its chilled autumn magnificence, it would be L’Artisan Parfumeur Voleur de Roses.
Michel Almairac created Voleur de Roses (French for “rose thief”) in 1993. The L’Artisan Parfumeur website lists its notes simply as patchouli, rose, and plum. That sounds right to me. Voleur de Roses smells like a Syrah-soaked rose washed over with wet patchouli, moldering wood, and cold plum. The wet has an almost metallic edge, like the ocean. The fragrance’s patchouli is one of its main features, so if you don’t like patchouli, steer clear…
The Monday Mail ~ help Isabelle find a new perfume
Today subject is Isabelle, who owns three perfumes and wants to find a fourth to join her collection. She says she wears perfume for her own pleasure, but discusses her sampling experiences with her husband, who has a great nose. She has a hard time finding perfumes that please her because she doesn’t like the mainstream French-European style.
Isabelle wants to find an iris, rose or tea scent, but is willing to entertain other ideas as well, and will happily try men’s fragrances as well as women’s. Her new perfume should be discreet, with good lasting power, and it should cost no more than $150 for 50 ml. Here is what we know about Isabelle:
She is in her mid 50’s and works as a librarian.
She enjoys jazz music, modern painting, photography and nature paths.
Isabelle dresses ‘comfortably classic’ with an emphasis on beautiful colors and soft textures.
Isabelle owns Serge Lutens Ambre Sultan…
Online fragrance shopping
New at anthropologie: Alexa Lixfeld line.
New at bloomingdales: Salvatore Ferragamo Attimo L 'Eau Florale.
Deal at neimanmarcus: The Scent Event, get a free clutch and samples with a purchase of $85 or more, offer good through 11/28 or while supplies last.
Tauer Perfumes Cologne du Maghreb ~ new fragrance
Tauer Perfumes will launch Cologne du Maghreb, a new all natural fragrance, at the end of this month. Cologne du Maghreb was featured in Tauer’s 2010 advent calendar give-away, and will be exclusive to Indiescents…