New at colette (FR): Miller Harris Le Pamplemousse.
New at escentual (UK): Prada Infusion d'Iris Absolue, Swarovski Aura Collection Mariage.
New at harrods (UK): Issey Miyake L'Eau d'Issey Pour Homme Sport.
New at macys: Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Terrible, Estee Lauder Brasil Dream.
Deal at neimanmarcus: The Gift of Scent promotion, get a free tote bag and fragrance samples with beauty purchase of $85 or more. New items include Jo Malone Plum Blossom.
New at nordstrom: Original Penguin Rocks.
Donna Karan’s DKNY label will introduce DKNY Hearts The World, a new quartet of Be Delicious flankers inspired by beloved cities…
On the bed, a suitcase lies open. New Yorkers, Michelin maps, and a passport stuff the computer tote next to it. For the most part, I’ve nailed down my travel wardrobe — simple cotton dresses with cardigans and flat shoes since I’ll be primarily in the country — but the one thing I haven’t yet packed is perfume.
In the past I’ve tried to settle on one or two fragrances to bring on a trip with the idea that I’d buy something new on vacation and wear it often enough so that just a whiff later would bring back travel memories. This time I’m considering adopting an olfactory theme to the trip: iris and leather.
I figure as a foundation I’ll pack a large decant of Parfums DelRae Mythique. Its tender suede-iris is quiet and easy but delicious, and it’s equally at home in the city as it is in the rural, stone-floored house I’ll be staying in. I almost always have some Mythique handy anyway for when the day’s perfume wears off and I want something unobtrusive but wonderful all the same. Mythique will comfort me…
Today we’re helping Desirae. She loves “heavy, opulent scents with plenty of cleavage and wiggle” — perfumes like Guerlain Shalimar and Mitsouko, and Rochas Femme. She needs a perfect perfume for hot, muggy summer days, but she tends to find light and cooling fragrances boring. She’d like our help in finding something appropriate that will hold her attention. She’d also like to keep the cost under $100, although she’s willing buy decants if need be. Here is what she know about Desirae:
She’s in her mid 20s and lives in Canada, where she works as an administrative assistant.
She loves retro things: furniture, clothes and … perfume styles.
Desirae likes notes of civet, peach, vanilla (non-foody), leather, rose, jasmine if it isn’t that terrible “air freshener” jasmine, tobacco and various spices…
Rodin Olio Lusso Perfume is a new fragrance that captures the aroma of Rodin’s Olio Lusso Face Oil. The fragrance was developed in collaboration with indie perfumers DS & Durga…