New at dillards: Rihanna Rebelle.
New at nordstrom: Givenchy Dahlia Noir, Diptyque Eau Rose, Jimmy Choo Parfum.
New at saksfifthavenue: Diptyque Eau Rose.
Bvlgari Omnia Coral ~ new perfume
Bvlgari will launch Omnia Coral this spring. The new fragrance for women is the fourth flanker to the original Omnia (it follows Omnia Crystalline, Omnia Amethyste and Omnia Green Jade), and was inspired by red corals and the ‘shimmering colors of summer’…
The Monday Mail ~ open thread for feedback, May through August 2011
This is an open thread for participants in the Monday Mail articles to share their experiences, and hopefully let us know if they found what they were looking for (or went bankrupt trying). I’ve sent out emails requesting feedback from everyone who took part between May and August of 2011, so check back over the next few days to see what we can find out (or, check out this post about the subjects from January through April). We’ll check on the rest of the 2011 participants in a few months.
Here are links to the articles for each participant…
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, mid-January 2012
A quick note: the 2012 Prix Eau Faux (our contest to reward creative fragrance writing or “faux ad copy”) will kick off in mid- to late-February. Sharpen your pencils!
Today, the same old open thread routine: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the perfume you wish you were wearing today, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: image is Green Roof by Fr Antunes at flickr; some rights reserved.
Sarah Horowitz Coconut Milk ~ fragrance review
I’m a city-loving, sun-averse individual who doesn’t even own a bathing suit, and I can’t remember my last visit to a beach. (Oh, wait, there was that weekend in Montauk. In April 2006.) Despite, or perhaps for, this very reason, I find myself testing beach-themed and tropics-themed perfumes more often than you might expect. The latest such fragrance to cross my desk was a sample of Sarah Horowitz Coconut Milk, a recent release from this California-based independent perfumer.
Coconut Milk, the latest addition to Sarah Horowitz’s “Perfect” line, includes top notes of coconut and almond, heart notes of orange blossom and gardenia, and base notes of tonka bean, vanilla, and Egyptian musk. It’s a fragrance that accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do. Its coconut accord is milky with a hint of green, and it doesn’t remind me at all of the suntan lotions of my youth, thank goodness. The coconut, which lasts throughout the fragrance’s development on skin, is followed by just a hint of creamy gardenia…