Keira Knightley talks about Chanel Coco Mademoiselle in the first (second is below the jump update: second is no longer on Youtube, sorry!) of two teasers for the upcoming commercial, which is to debut next week. And if you missed them, check out the 2007 and 2009 efforts.
Parfums MDCI La Belle Helene ~ fragrance review
I like pears, and I like apples, but as a general rule, I don’t like either in my perfume. Whether that’s because of how they’ve typically been used — from Donna Karan Be Delicious to Viktor & Rolf Eau Mega to Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia — or because I just plain don’t care for the smell, is hard to say.
La Belle Hélène, the latest from Parfums MDCI, promised the pears (and the violets) from the dessert Poires Belle-Hélène, minus all the fun stuff calories (vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce). On the plus side, it also promised osmanthus, one of my favorite floral notes, and the perfumer in question, Bertrand Duchaufour, is responsible for one of the few perfumes with (noticeable) apple that I like: L’Artisan Parfumeur Traversée du Bosphore. Oh, and plus he is responsible for quite a few other fragrances I was willing to pay real money for. So I was looking forward to La Belle Hélène, even though it costs more money than I would ever spend on a perfume. So far…
Outsized sense of smell
World-class "noses" in the perfume and wine business are not born with an outsized sense of smell but acquire it through years of professional sniffing, according to new research.
In experiments with novice and veteran perfume makers, French scientists found that the ability to detect and identify hundreds, even thousands, of different odours depends almost entirely on rigorous training.
— Read more at Super sense of smell not innate at Yahoo News.
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2011, part 3
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Bvlgari, the Bvlgari Charms collection, featuring 25 ml bottles of Rose Essentielle (pink), Pour Femme (yellow), Omnia Green Jade (green), BLV Eau de Parfum II (blue), Omnia Améthyste (purple), Omnia Crystalline (white), Jasmin Noir (black) and Mon Jasmin Noir (white with black ribbon). $45 each…