The Fragrance Foundation has announced the winners of the 2011 Fifi Awards, known as the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”.
And the winners are:
Women’s Luxe (sold in over 250 doors) ~ Gucci Guilty
Men’s Luxe ~ Chanel Bleu de Chanel…
Montale Full Incense ~ fragrance review
Over the years, I’ve been told I smell like 1.) a Christmas tree, 2.) an ashtray, 3.) a sacristy, and 4.) an “ethnic” gift shop. On each of those “occasions” I was wearing an incense fragrance.
I’ve never reached the saturation point with incense-centered colognes. I love incense (and incense perfume) in all seasons. The aromas of frankincense, sandalwood, halmaddi, agarwood, kyphi, and copal can take me on a sensory journey from chilly European cathedrals to steamy Southeast Asian temples, from ancient North African and Mesoamerican pyramids to the high and dry deserts of the American Southwest. For me, incense evokes rites, festivals and magical landscapes.
Montale Full Incense includes notes of cedar, labdanum, patchouli, elemi, and frankincense…
It began with the samples
Looking back, I can see it began with the samples, the small glass vials of perfume that I had begun to collect—do I really need to use the word hoard to be clear here?—in a wooden cigar box hidden under the bed. [...] I liked to paw through them in their little boxes, separating them into shifting categories of my own devising.
— Our own Alyssa Harad, in The Perfume Diet in the June issue of O Magazine.
Especially Escada ~ new fragrance
Escada will launch Especially Escada, a new floral perfume for spontaneous and glamorous women, in August. Especially Escada was inspired by the scent of morning dew on a rose, and the tag line is ‘create your world of happiness’…
Online fragrance shopping
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Costume National Pop Collection, Brecourt Paris, Atelier Cologne.
New at nordstrom: L'Occitane Pivoine Flora.