What’s your fragrance today?
I am 99% recovered from my brief illness, so I’m in fragrance again. Today I’m wearing a dab of Stella McCartney L.I.L.Y. I really like this one but I don’t think it took off, did it? I never hear it mentioned.
Reminder: this Friday, 11/28 (Black Friday!) will be Cheap Thrills Friday…
Indie line Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Vanilla Bourbon Intense, the brand’s holiday fragrance for 2014…
New at dillards: Jay Z Gold Extreme.
Deal at dshperfumes: take 20% off with coupon code cheer14, good through 1/5.
New at first-in-fragrance (DE): Hiram Green Shangri La, Lalique Amethyst Eclat.
Escada has launched Turquoise Summer, the brand’s limited edition summer fragrance for 2015. The last entries in the series were Cherry In The Air and Born in Paradise…
Fendi — what is the general perfumista view of Fendi, anyway? (That’s a serious question, do comment). Like many of you, I adore Theorema,1 and I know the original Fendi fragrance for women is still remembered fondly. But nothing Fendi has done in my (perfumista) time has interested me. I have nothing to say about Fan di Fendi, and the brand’s last pillar for women, L’Acquarossa, did not inspire any greater sentiment than hey, you could do worse.
L’Acquarossa was styled as the “red elixir of passion”. Furiosa stakes its claim as “the essence of wild femininity”; in the Furiosa commercial, everything Kasia Smutniak touches takes on a glittering gold animal print to match the bottle design.2 Does it live up to its billing? Need we even ask…