Time for another damage poll! Donatella Versace, Our Lady of Scented Indulgence,1 wants to know what you bought in the 2nd quarter (April, May and June) of 2011.
Update: the poll is now closed!
My purchases? I was not quite as well behaved as I was in the first quarter…
Guess will launch Seductive I’m Yours, a new fragrance for women, in August. Seductive I’m Yours is a flanker to last year’s Guess Seductive perfume, and follows the recent Seductive Wild Summer…
New at dillards: Kenneth Cole Reaction Connected, Guerlain Shalimar Parfum Initial.
New at harrods (UK): Roja Dove Parfums.
New at selfridges (UK): Boss in Motion Made For Summer.
Bath & Body Works will launch Paris Amour, a new fragrance for women, in August:
The essence of a woman who isn’t afraid of spontaneous adventure. Feminine and romantic…
My tired nose is on a brief hiatus from perfume-sniffing. Right now, I’m devoting my appreciation of scent to what’s blooming in the garden: mock-orange/Philadelphus (one of those glorious floral aromas that no perfume can duplicate), honey locust trees, roses, wallflowers, gardenia, jasmine, clove-y “pinks,” peonies…and lavender.
West of Seattle, a large area of land near the town of Sequim, Washington, is devoted to lavender production, and I’m heading there next weekend to breathe in lavender’s pungent, herbal aromas. Lavender…in soggy western Washington, you ask? Sequim is located in what residents of Seattle fondly, yearningly call “the rain shadow” of the Olympic Mountains in the Sequim-DungenessValley. Rainfall is usually less than 20 inches a year in the sunny rain shadow, so lavender thrives. As Seattle is the “Paris of the Northwest,” so Sequim is the Provence of the U.S. (Relax! You may laugh!)…