The new commercial for Madonna's Truth or Dare fragrance. No nudity, but plenty of Madonna's signature bad girl stuff, so possibly NSFW. Hat tip to reader kaos.geo!
You really pay for the bottle
I give these companies access to my lab so they can get to know individual smells and see things in a different way. It’s a shame we’re obsessed with an industry where you really pay for the bottle and campaign rather than what is inside it. We could start with understanding what’s in the bottle first, demanding better quality and different smells. Who needs a new Lady Gaga perfume?
— Sissel Tolaas, quoted in Sissel Tolaas: The Smell Artist at Slow Travel Berlin. You can also read more at Alyssa's Sissel Tolaas, scent artist ~ out of the bottle.
Tous Sensual Touch ~ new fragrance
Spanish house Tous will launch Sensual Touch, a new flanker to 2006’s Tous Touch…
Aedes de Venustas Signature Eau de Parfum ~ new fragrance
West Village niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas has launched an eponymous fragrance under their own brand name. A prior fragrance, also called Aedes de Venustas, was made for the L’Artisan Parfumeur label. The new chypre scent was developed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, who also did the fragrance for L’Artisan…
Flora by Gucci The Garden Gorgeous Gardenia, Gracious Tuberose and Glamorous Magnolia ~ perfume reviews and a quick poll
Gucci launched Flora in 2009. Flora is one of those light and sparkling casual florals, pretty and inoffensive — you know the sort I mean, the kind that go for pleasant and wearable over interesting, but that so perfectly hit that “pleasant and wearable” mark that they’re memorable anyway. When I reviewed it, I called it the still-cheerful older sister of Marc Jacobs Daisy, if that helps you place it. And like Daisy, it was just a notch above the competition. I often recommend it to people who are looking for something in that genre.
Gucci’s new Flora by Gucci The Garden is a quintet of floral flankers. Two of them — Generous Violet and Glorious Mandarin — are in limited distribution, and I have not tried them.1 The other three — Gorgeous Gardenia, Gracious Tuberose and Glamorous Magnolia — are widely available in department and beauty stores, and those are the three I’m reviewing today. All of them, like the original Flora, were reportedly inspired by Gucci’s “renowned” Flora print…