New at macys: Coach Poppy Flower, Sean John Empress.
New at selfridges (UK): Jo Malone Dark Amber & Ginger Lily.
New at ulta: Marc Jacobs Oh, Lola.
DKNY Delicious Candy Apples Sweet Strawberry & Fresh Orange ~ new fragrances
Donna Karan has added two new fragrances, Sweet Strawberry and Fresh Orange, to the Delicious Candy Apples series (see reviews of last year’s trio, Ripe Raspberry, Sweet Caramel and Juicy Berry)…
The Monday Mail goes on vacation, again
I forgot to mention last Monday that the Monday Mail has gone on its annual summer vacation. It will be back briefly next Monday, for a feedback poll for participants from January through April 2011, then it's gone again until mid-to-late September.
The Body Shop White Musk Libertine ~ new perfume
The Body Shop will launch White Musk Libertine, a new fragrance for women, in October. White Musk Libertine is described as a ‘”new generation White Musk” and The Body Shop’s “‘most feminine fragrance to date”…
Poetry Sand, Creme, and Vellum ~ scented body products
As I write this post, the temperature in New York City is 102 degrees. In weather like this, we’ll all be bathing more often than usual, so we might as well make the best of it and try out some new body products, right? I’ve been taking advantage of these two-shower days to test a few things from Poetry, a small company that encourages the “Intimate Ritual” of bathing.
Poetry’s bath-and-body line is available in two fragrance blends; I’ve been using samples of products scented with Verse 1, “a versatile citrus fragrance with notes of sandalwood and jasmine.” (The other fragrance is Verse 2, “a potent scent of mint and balsam needle with a hint of grapefruit.”) Verse 1 is strongly citrus, with intense, sunny notes of bergamot and lemon and a smooth woodsy base that suggests cedar as well as sandalwood. I don’t really notice the jasmine, but that’s fine, because the citrus-wood pairing has a cleansing, almost purifying effect on my mind as well as my body. It makes me feel more alert, and purged of all heat-related discomfort, at least for a little while…