New at nordstrom: Michael Kors Gold.
New at selfridges: Marc Jacobs Oh, Lola.
All of a sudden my heart sings
Nine D'Urso for the new Bottega Veneta fragrance. If this wasn't enough for you, you can find a longer version (around 3 minutes) here.
Towards floralcy
For women, there seems to be more femininity coming back. It’s going back to the ultra feminine fragrances of the ’30s and ’40s, but making them more modern and sleek, and incorporating natural elements.
What has happened recently with men’s fragrances is that they’ve started to take a little bit more of a move toward floralcy. We’ve come out of the hard woody notes, the darkness notes.
— Kellie Como of Inter Parfums talks about recent fragrance trends. Read more at An Experience Consumers Want to Make Their Own at GCI.
David Beckham Homme ~ new fragrance
David Beckham will launch David Beckham Homme, a new fragrance for men, in September. David Beckham Homme is meant to reflect the soccer star’s modern, masculine style…
Eau d’Italie Jardin du Poete ~ fragrance review
Based in Positano, its perfumes inspired by Italy — Baume du Doge (Venice), Bois d’Ombrie (Umbria), Eau d’Italie (Positano), Magnolia Romana (Rome), Paestum Rose (Paestum) and Sienne l’Hiver (Siena) — niche line Eau d’Italie’s fragrance names are in French (Perché? Do more people know how to pronounce French than Italian? Are French titles more “perfume-y”?) Eau d’Italie also uses a French perfumer, Bertrand Duchaufour, to create many of its fragrances, and I’ve enjoyed (almost) all of his Eau d’Italie perfumes (Magnolia Romana excepted).
Working with Eau d’Italie’s owners, Marina Sersale and Sebastián Alvarez Murena, Duchaufour supposedly took two years of “intense development” to create Jardin du Poète:
The inspiration for this fragrance is a tale from a bygone era, when nations were ruled by poets, and poets were sacred to Apollo. In those days Sicily was a Greek colony, Syracuse was a fragrant court, and its gardens vibrated with the scent of citrus orchards and rows of aromatic plants. Thus “Jardin du Poete”, the poet’s garden, a luminous fragrance to evoke Sicily and all things Sicilian.
It would require another article to tackle the confused notions expressed in that PR blip, but I’ll take Eau d’Italie at its word when it states it wanted Jardin du Poète to be “deliciously original and uncompromisingly contemporary.” Jardin du Poète succeeds on one of those two counts…