Actress Emily Blunt, in a teaser for the upcoming Yves Saint Laurent Opium ad.
Below the jump, three ads featuring model Linda Evangelista for Opium. The first two (politically incorrect) ads are from 1986; the last of the three Evangelista ads (in French) is from 1995.
Way down at the bottom, model Natalya Semonova in a 1999 ad directed by David Lynch (who also did ads for the fragrance in 1992).
New at bluemercury: Acqua di Parma Gelsomino Nobile.
New at lordandtaylor: Oscar de la Renta Live in Love.
New at neimanmarcus: Cartier Baiser Vole.
New at selfridges (UK): Valentino Valentina, Tom Ford Violet Blonde.
Ed Hardy has launched Villain, the brand’s latest fragrance duo:
Villain for women ~ “Playfully splashing in the sea waters…
As someone who adopted a Goth style in her late teens and early twenties, and who is still obsessed with early American gravestones, I couldn’t help being intrigued by Skin & Bones. It’s an all-purpose, oil-based moisturizer made entirely from natural ingredients, and it caught my eye because it’s packaged in a dark glass bottle with calligraphic lettering on the label (shown below); the company’s logo (shown above) is a winged skull of the sort you’d see carved into a very old tombstone.
Skin & Bones’ ingredients are jojoba oil and essential oils of ylang-ylang, frankincense, myrrh, grapefruit, jasmine, lemon, rosewood, cedarwood, and sandalwood. As the Skin & Bones website explains, the essential oils were chosen for their aromatherapeutic properties as well as their benefits to skin. The one that dominates the overall fragrance of Skin & Bones is ylang-ylang. I enjoyed Erin’s recent post about ylang-ylang fragrances, and I recommend it as a primer on this note’s background and characteristics. I’m another person who fell in love with ylang-ylang during my early niche-fragrance sampling days, and I’m still happy to encounter it. Skin & Bones’ ylang-ylang has a brightness that is enhanced by the accompanying lemon notes, and a sensuality that is reinforced by the rosewood and sandalwood. It’s a linear, versatile blend. Incidentally, the dark purple “Violet-Glass” bottle is functional as well as cool-looking…
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 Humiecki & Graef, limited edition 100 ml porcelain bottles of Bosque (above left), Clemency (above right), Geste (below left) and Eau Radieuse (below right): “Brand founders Sebastian Fischenich and Tobias Müksch succeeded in engaging Dutch artist Wouter Dolk, world-renowned for his hand-painted, often floral-themed wallpaper, to create the stunning flacon designs…”