L’Occitane will launch Rose des Champs, a new limited edition fragrance featuring wild rose extract from Provence, in August…
Banana Republic Wildblue ~ new fragrance
Molyneux Quartz ~ fragrance review
There was a time — not long ago, either — when “clean” didn’t smell like laundry soap. In those days, a clean fragrance was crisp and green with a hint of citrus, but might also waft a pretty floral heart and deliver a punch of oakmoss. Clean wasn’t a stack of folded sweat pants hot from the dryer, it was a white kid glove slid onto a cool, powdered hand. Chanel Cristalle and Estée Lauder Aliage embody this style of clean. Molyneux Quartz must have been one of the last mainstream fragrances of this genre.
Quartz was released in 1978. The Parfums Molyneux website mentions only honeysuckle and patchouli among its notes, but Jan Moran’s Fabulous Fragrances lists peach, hyacinth, cassie, jasmine, rose, carnation, orris, melon, sandalwood, musk amber, moss, benzoin, and cedarwood and classifies Quartz as a “floral-fruity.”
To me, Quartz Eau de Parfum is a delicate green chypre with hints of peach and melon and a whiff of cut herbs…
The Monday Mail ~ help Poppie find a new perfume
Today we’re helping Poppie, who has just retired and wants to update her fragrance wardrobe — she feels like she’s been in a rut and is due for big changes. She’d like to find a special occasion perfume, plus a few everyday scents that will survive sports and hopefully not attract mosquitoes. She wants her new fragrances to be generally happy, uplifting, fresh, warm and friendly, and to have good lasting power — she’s not looking for anything “femme fatale” or “grand dame matriarch”. Here is what we know about Poppie:
She’s in her early 60s and lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
She says she is fair and thin skinned with freckles, green eyes, peachy cheeks, a few wrinkles and dark brown hair with some grey. She uses minimal makeup and bright coral lipstick.
She’s mostly worked in finance/accounting, where close, non-confrontational scents are the norm.
She says she is a visual, analytic type of person, quiet most of the time with occasional bursts of activity. She loves camping, hiking, cross country skiing, Siberian husky dogs, and horses.
Poppie’s previous “standby” fragrances now seem too bland and lightweight to her…
Pink!
Model Kendra Spears for Moschino's new Pink Bouquet.