Spanish fashion brand Mango has launched Lady Rebel Rock Deluxe, a new flanker to 2009’s Lady Rebel…
A substance rather more fragrant
The whiff of the Arab spring is reaching the shores of Europe. This time it's not the smell of tear gas, pepper spray or burning rubber but a substance rather more fragrant.
As western minds grapple with the political conundrums of the region, so western designers such as Christian Dior, Tom Ford and Giorgio Armani are showing greater interest in Arab-influenced fragrances.
— Read more at Perfume brands get whiff of profit from Arabian scents at the Guardian. The article totally misses the point, though, that the "whiff of profit" these brands are after is not from consumers in the West.
Charriol Royal Leather ~ new fragrance
Swiss luxury jewelry and watch brand Charriol has launched Royal Leather Eau de Parfum Pour Homme, a new oriental leather fragrance…
Faberge Tigress ~ vintage fragrance review
I admit it. At least half the reason I love Fabergé Tigress is its packaging. Although Tigress’s boxes and bottles evolved with time, most of them featured tiger stripe somewhere. My favorite packaging has tiger stripe inside the box, and the stripes are edged in gold against an orange-brown background so rich it’s almost red. The Norma Desmond in me aches for a dressing room papered in it. Faux tiger fur wraps Tigress’s wooden cap — the perfect complement to its topaz-tinted juice. And the fonts! Over the years, Fabergé ran the gamut of glamorous lettering for Tigress. I like the curly font that looks like it should be advertising poodle trims.
Fabergé released it in 1938, but in my mind Tigress isn’t late 1930s or even Norma Desmond’s long lost 1920s. It’s forever 1970s, when Fabergé ruled the drugstore shelves with Brut, Babe, and a line of earth-toned nail polishes my mother loved. Tigress’s palette blended well with harvest gold appliances, too. When I imagine a woman with a long, sandy shag and bell bottomed pants emerging from a Gran Torino, she’s wearing Tigress…
The Monday Mail ~ help Tiana find a new fragrance
Today we’re helping Tiana. She wants to find a new everyday fragrance, and another for evening or cool weather wear. Tiana lives in inland Southern California, where it can get very hot and humid in the summer. She says she gravitates toward green, watery scents but would not mind expanding her horizons a bit. She can spend up to $150 for a bottle, but is also happy to buy decants. Here is what we know about Tiana:
She’s in her early 30s and is the mom of 2 toddlers. She’s also a makeup artist and singer.
While her professions are artistically bohemian and breezy, at home she is a typical type A personality — but she tries not to take herself too seriously.
Her main interests are reading, singing, researching, and listening to musical theater and opera, classic rock, makeup and fragrance, her daughters, wine, mixology, and needlepoint.
Tiana likes greenish watery scents, lotus, green fig, black tea, some green tea, sea salt, wet dirt, herbs, cedar, cypress, calamus, moss…