DSquared2 will launch Potion for Woman in September. The new fragrance is the feminine counterpart to last year’s Potion for men, and like that scent is meant as ‘the scent of seduction’…
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Loewe Un Paseo por Madrid ~ new fragrances
Spanish luxury brand Loewe has launched Colección Un Paseo por Madrid, a new quartet of fragrances “inspired by the splendour of Madrid…[and the] evocative, dreamy and majestic strolls that only the capital city can offer”…
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, mid-August 2012
Same old open thread poll: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the fall launches you're most looking forward to, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
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Lancome La Vie Est Belle ~ perfume review
Day to day, week to week, there are fragrance launches, and then there are fragrance launches. Lancôme‘s La Vie Est Belle is one of the major launches of pre-fall 2012, complete with big-name perfumers, Julia Roberts as its “ambassadress,” a gala celebration in the south of France, a soon-to-be-unveiled commercial directed by Tarsem Singh, and more. Lancôme is promoting La Vie Est Belle as its next “iconic” fragrance, hoping it will match Trésor in popularity and longevity as a pillar of the brand’s fragrance collection, and no expense or effort has been spared in this campaign.
The fragrance, whose name translates as “life is beautiful,” was developed by perfumers Olivier Polge, Dominique Ropion and Anne Flipo. Its composition includes notes of Florentine Iris pallida, iris aldehyde, jasmine sambac, Tunisian orange blossom, Indonesian patchouli, and a “gourmand accord” of vanilla, tonka bean, praline, black currant and pear. According to Lancôme, La Vie Est Belle represents “a new era” and “the choice to live one’s life and fill it with beauty.” (You can find more information on the fragrance’s philosophy at the Lancôme website.)
I was immediately skeptical about Lancôme’s assertion that La Vie Est Belle is “the first ever iris gourmand”…