Avon has launched Today Tomorrow Always Together, a new limited edition fragrance for women. Today Tomorrow Always Together is fronted by actress Olivia Wilde, and follows last year’s Today Tomorrow Always Amour…
Marie Claire International Fragrance Awards 2014 ~ the winners
Marie Claire magazine has announced the winners of their fourth annual International Fragrance Awards (Prix International du Parfum). The winners were selected by the beauty journalists at Marie Claire…
Christian Dior Cuir Cannage ~ new fragrance
Christian Dior has launched Cuir Cannage, the latest addition to their upscale La Collection Privée Christian Dior fragrance series. The last entries in the collection were Gris Montaigne in 2013 and Les Élixirs Précieux earlier this year…
Parfums de Nicolai Patchouli Intense ~ fragrance review
Natural patchouli. So maligned. Always mentioned in the same breath as low-rent head shops…or hippies. Thus? Thought of as: dated, old fashioned, tired…obnoxious. Or just noxious.
Me? I love real patchouli! But the first time I wore natural patchouli I realized it was not beloved by all. During college, I remember taking my little brown bottle of patchouli oil and dribbling some oil into my palms and then rubbing it all over my leather boots (as I had read “rebels” did in the 60s). I went to work. Almost as soon as I sat at my desk I heard whispers slowly turning into boisterous shouts: “What’s that smell?” “I’m getting SICK!” “Damn! It smells like a HEAD SHOP in here!” “Is Stevie Nicks in the building?” I started to sweat…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2014, part 6
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US. Today’s post includes special editions from Jo Malone, Lacoste, Nuxe and Avon.
From Jo Malone, limited editions of five of the brand’s fragrances — English Pear & Freesia, Pomegranate Noir, Lime Basil & Mandarin, Earl Grey & Cucumber and Peony & Blush Suede — in bottles and boxes decorated by the creative design studio Calm & Collected. Due to launch in May, exclusive to Selfridge’s, in 30 and 100 ml…