Guerlain has launched Mon Précieux Nectar, a reissue of a 2009 limited edition fragrance that was available in a crystal fountain, the Fontaine Imperiale (reportedly 35 one-liter bottles were made). Mon Précieux Nectar now joins the Les Parisiennes collection…
Guerlain has launched Bouquet de Mai, a new travel-retail-exclusive addition to the Aqua Allegoria line…
Estée Lauder touts Aliage as the first fragrance for sports. One sniff, and my guess is hockey and motocross aren’t the sports Ms. Lauder envisioned. A round of bridge or maybe an hour in the cutting garden are more like it. Nonetheless, Aliage is fresh, tart, and clean — the perfect accompaniment to tennis whites.
Aliage hit the market in 1972 when a bevy of delicious green chypres graced department store shelves. Yves Saint Laurent Y, Givenchy III, and old-timers Carven Ma Griffe and Balmain Vent Vert jostled for the attention of the woman looking for unfussy modern elegance. Aliage stands apart in its G-rated playfulness…
Today we’re helping Anne, who comments here as Ladymurasaki. She’s looking for a signature fragrance that has presence, character and an air of mystery — something she could wear nearly every day. Anne says she is at a point in her life where she doesn’t give tuppence about what other people think about her, so her new perfume can be “in your face” provided it isn’t headache-inducing. She doesn’t have a price limit.
Here is what we know about Anne:
She’s in her mid 40s and is an antiques dealer and painter living in London.
She says she is an open-minded person and people (including strangers) seem to find it easy to tell her their secrets.
She appreciates the odd and the absurd.
She loves color but is usually dressed in black. As a teenager she wore black clothes and a string of pearls… a bit pretentious, but she loved Françoise Sagan at that time.
Anne comes from a family of women who love things of quality and style. Besides perfume, she is passionate about the arts, history, books, films, music and cooking.
Anne says something with honeysuckle or osmanthus would be nice for this spring and summer…
We're very pleased to announce that Aleta B will be joining us as a contributor on perfume books. Her first post, a review of MJ Rose's The Book of Lost Fragrances, will appear tomorrow — do come by and welcome her to Now Smell This! You can read more about Aleta and her background on our About page.
If you have your own perfume blog and would be interested in writing a guest post (or if you've already written a guest post for us and would like to write another), just send me (robin at nstperfume dot com) a quick note with a link to your site. If you already know what you’d like to write about, mention that too, but it isn’t necessary.
And as always, we are open to general complaints & suggestions — this is as good a place to put them as any, so do comment!
Oops: and meant to add that voting for the Prix Eau Faux will be coming up on Thursday!