New at beautyhabit: Parfums de Nicolai L'Eau Chic.
New at belk: Guess Seductive Homme, Original Penguin, Beyonce Pulse, Donna Karan Pure DKNY Verbena.
New at dillards: Eau de Lacoste trio.
New at harrods (UK): Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge & Santal Blush.
New at sephora: Narciso Rodriguez Essence in color.
Laura Ashley will launch a new trio of fragrances for women in October. Pink Petals, Green Meadow and Floral Heart will be the first perfumes from the brand since 2000’s Magic Garden…
Spanish fashion house J Del Pozo has launched Halloween Fever, a new fruity floriental fragrance for women. Halloween Fever is a flanker to 1997′s Halloween, and reflects the “essence of living the night life in New York City”…
We here at Now Smell This have our seasonal lists of “Top 10” fragrances and each December we release a list of best scents of the year. We are a positive bunch for the most part. But if we were to release a “Worst of 2011” list, I have a nominee: Yves Saint Laurent Saharienne.
Saharienne illustrates what happens when a jacket* is the inspiration for a perfume (talk about a dearth of ideas). After smelling Saharienne, I can only imagine the “creative”-team sessions in Paris before the fragrance went into development:
“What about the scent of a freshly dry cleaned Saharienne jacket?”
“Or a Saharienne jacket hand washed with baby shampoo?”
“I’m smelling a ‘stuffed’ Saharienne jacket — ALL its pockets crammed with scented bathroom tissue.”
“I like the idea of a Saharienne jacket after an encounter with hairspray.”
“…the scent of a woman wearing her Saharienne as she gets a permanent wave in a Fez beauty parlor…?”
Any of those ideas could have produced the current Saharienne…
Charlize Theron, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly and Marlene Dietrich for Christian Dior J'Adore. You can read more about the ad campaign at Hollywood Reporter.