Baldessarini has launched Baldessarini Nautic Spirit, a new fragrance for men. It’s the first launch from the Baldessarini brand since 2012’s Baldessarini Secret Mission…
Ed Hardy Love is… for men ~ new fragrance
Ed Hardy has launched Love Is… for men, the masculine counterpart to their Love Is…perfume for women. The tattoo design on the bottle reads: True Death. The duo are advertised as the only “shake and spray” fragrances…
Cartier La Panthere ~ perfume review
The panther is the symbol of Cartier femininity: divine, exquisite and rebellious simultaneously. In a word: free. Free to love and live life to the full, with passion, eye to eye…an unexplored, almost paradoxical accord: a feral floral. Cartier perfumer Mathilde Laurent began with a gardenia. From this fresh flower she set out to create a fragrance that would leave pure, mesmerising tracks of a colour pushed to its animalistic limit.1
To quote Angie’s review of Ys Uzac Satin Doll yesterday, hey, sign me up! A feral floral pushed to its animalistic limit, with gardenia no less, sounds perfect. I haven’t always been a Cartier fan girl, but Baiser Volé started me on the road to conversion, and the stunning panther bottle for the new La Panthère finished me off. So when the fragrance went up for sale on the Cartier website, and I saw that they’d made the 30 ml bottle available at the outset (often, they’re hard to find, or never appear in the US until much after the launch, if at all), what did I do? Well, I bought it of course…
Clean Summer Sailing ~ new fragrance
Clean will launch Summer Sailing, a new limited edition fragrance. Other recent introductions from the brand include First Blush, White Woods and Cool Cotton…
Strategic raw materials
We now keep reserves of strategic raw materials – such as vetiver, vanilla and lavender – selected on the basis of three criteria: they can't be synthesised, only come from a single geographical source and are needed in large quantities.
— A spokesperson from Givaudan, quoted in Perfume manufacturers must cope with the scarcity of precious supplies at The Guardian. Perfumer Thierry Wasser, in the same article, jokes "What was Jean-Paul [Guerlain] thinking of when he put so much sandalwood in Samsara?"