Playboy Fragrances will launch Play It Pin Up for Her, the 2014 version of their Play It Pin Up collection, in February. You can see the 2013 version here; the fragrance is to be launched every year with a new “pin up” image…
Britney Spears Fantasy The Naughty Remix & Fantasy The Nice Remix ~ new perfumes
Britney Spears will launch Fantasy The Naughty Remix and Fantasy The Nice Remix in February. The new fragrances for women are flankers to 2005′s Britney Spears Fantasy, and follow Midnight Fantasy (2007), Hidden Fantasy and Circus Fantasy (both 2009), and Island Fantasy (2013)…
A woman obsessed with smell
She is a woman obsessed with smell. As head of a sensory ecology lab, she's spent the past two decades picking apart how seabirds' ability to detect scents is key to their survival. Nevitt had the good fortune to arrive in the field on the heels of a handful of pioneering bird olfaction studies. Yet changing long-held beliefs takes time, and the scientific community is no exception. Dozens of Nevitt's grant proposals have been rejected because of the birds-can't-smell fallacy. A program officer once called to say her application was the worst he'd ever seen. "Your idea that birds can smell is ridiculous,"he said. "This will never be funded, so stop wasting your time."
— Read more at Birds Can Smell, and One Scientist is Leading the Charge to Prove It, an article at Audubon magazine about Gabrielle Nevitt of the University of California-Davis.
Jay Z Gold ~ fragrance review
Jay Z Gold, the debut fragrance of rapper Shawn Carter aka Jay Z,1 launched late last year with relatively little fanfare — granted, we may never again see the sort of hoopla that surrounded the launch of Lady Gaga Fame,2 but still, I was surprised at how quiet it seemed. Then again, maybe I just missed it all, living under a rock as I do — there were reportedly tons of digital ads and outdoor billboards, and all sorts of promotional activities in New York City, including samples distributed on the street in front of Broadway theaters over Thanksgiving weekend. The president of Parlux, the holder of Jay Z’s fragrance license, promised that…
We are going to make a big noise. For the 30 days before Christmas, it will be impossible not to know he has a fragrance.3
So maybe it was a bigger deal than I thought, just not in the usual venues — do tell, have you seen anything promotional for Jay Z Gold…
Revlon Parfumerie ~ scented nail polish
Revlon has launched Revlon Parfumerie, a new line (although not their first) of scented nail polishes. There are 24 scented colors ranging from Wild Violets to Sunlit Grass to Italian Leather to Pink Pineapple to Surf Spray to African Tea Rose. The scent is apparently not evident until the polish is dry on nails…