Alexa Lixfeld has launched 004, her latest fragrance (see also: 001, 002 & 003):
What a joyful adventure of seduction…
Online fragrance shopping
Deal at beautyhabit: with any purchase of $85 or more, get a 3-piece French beauty brand sampler plus a mini of Tokyo Milk Eiffel Tower bubble bath using coupon code FRENCHBEAUTY, good through 9/20 or while supplies last.
New at escentual (UK): Ferragamo Attimo Pour Homme.
New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Acqua di Parma Gelsomino Nobile, Loewe Quizás, Quizás, Quizás Pasión.
New at harrods (UK): Cartier Baiser Volé.
New at saksfifthavenue: Diptyque perfume oil roll-ons.
New at selfridges (UK): Tom Ford Jasmin Rouge & Santal Blush.
Pacifica Island Vanilla ~ new fragrance
Pacifica has launched Island Vanilla, a new fragrance (there is already a Vanilla Vera Cruz fragrance in the line):
Sexy, easy to wear, and lovely to layer…
It is still a sideshow
The packaging of Clive Christian No. 1 is the main driver of the price, and this is the key point about luxury fragrances. The scent is important, but it is still a sideshow to the presentation of a bottle and the luxury credentials of the brand. For the new generation of emerging market trendsetters, with cash to spend, the core of luxury attraction is related to how much a brand says about its social status. It is aspirational consumption on a scale that fast-moving consumer goods markets have never seen before.
— Read more at Super Premium Beauty on Cusp of a New Era of Growth at GCI.
Perfume, Optimism, and the New Year
[Ed. note: I’m having various internet access & other technology issues. Apologies for the lack of posts today — here, a bit late, is Angie’s weekly article. Hopefully I’ll be back in business soon. Robin]
When I was a kid, the year broke easily into two pieces: a hot, dusty summer of playing at the swimming hole and making forts out of dried Manzanita branches; and the school year of textbooks, reuniting with friends, and tetherball.
In some ways, the start of the new school year was more significant than New Year’s day. Each school year, I hoped my carefully selected outfit from the Montgomery Wards catalog would signal my good taste and worldliness. My new haircut would launch me into the stratosphere of girls boys liked. My memorization of the capitals of all fifty states would awe the smart kids. Maybe, for the first time, some of the boys might even be taller than I was. The beginning of the school year was a time for optimism.
Today — the day after Labor Day — starts the school year for most American students. These days, I’ve taken to perfume to express my optimism for the brilliant new me that will surely take root. (O.K., maybe vintage coats play a role, too. And that chunky cast bronze ring I’ve had my eye on.) Through perfume, I can express the qualities I want to embody.
First, I’d like my perfume to convey something witty and unexpected…