Ermenegildo Zegna will launch Haitian Vetiver, a new fragrance for men, in January. Haitian Vetiver is an addition to 2012’s Essenze by Ermenegildo Zegna, a series of fragrances referencing the Ermenegildo Zegna Couture Collection.
The warm delicious scent of oven-baked potatoes
McCain, the world’s largest producer of frozen French fries, has created a potato-scented taxi to advertise their “ready baked jackets” (frozen baked potatoes that cook in 5 minutes) in the UK…
Coach Leatherware Nos. 1, 2, and 3 ~ fragrance review
Smelling the Coach Leatherware series makes me wonder why Coach didn’t start its fragrance line with leather in the first place. Leather is a natural for Coach, a company — like Hermès — that started in the tack business. Also like Hermès, Coach expanded to leather bags and belts, then to clothing and perfume. But that’s where Hermès and Coach part company. Although Coach has upped its style quotient, its quality has taken a nosedive in the past decade. (Just try to find a new Coach handbag with a leather lining.) Coach’s fragrances? Entirely forgettable.
Leatherware gives me fresh hope for the company. Each fragrance has personality and development, and they stand up to some of my favorite leather perfumes. Let’s go over them one by one.
Basically flat
After gaining back some of the ground lost after four years of negative sales during the economic downturn, fragrance sales are basically flat on the year, and experts predict they will continue their holding pattern during the holidays.
According to The NPD Group, 15 percent of shoppers will purchase a fragrance this holiday, which is unchanged from 2012; similarly, Euromonitor forecast that the category's sales will tick higher by only 0.2 percent this year.
— But it's still the fourth most popular holiday present. Read more at Fragrance sales to be flat this holiday at CNBC.
The Monday Mail ~ help Paula find a new perfume
This will be the last Monday Mail for 2013 — it’s about to take its annual holiday break. If you want to get on the waiting list for January, follow the instructions here.
Today we’re helping Paula. She wants to find a signature fragrance — she likes the concept, but she also has Asperger’s syndrome, and that has complicated her search. Price is not important so long as it doesn’t get Clive-Christian-spendy. Here is what we know about Paula and her scent preferences:
She’s in her late 50s, and her clothing style is usually soft knits with dramatic jewelry.
She describes herself as intense and introverted.
She is fascinated by perfumes, and loves to sample new scents, but is prone to sensory overload…