New at harrods (UK): Floris Leather Oud & Honey Oud.
New at neimanmarcus: Givenchy Dahlia Divin.
New at selfridges (UK): Kenzo Jeu d'Amour, Hugo Boss Ma Vie Pour Femme.
Jill Stuart Crystal Bloom ~ new fragrance
Jill Stuart will launch Crystal Bloom, a new fragrance for women, in September…
Jasper Conran Nightshade ~ new fragrances
Jasper Conran will launch a new duo of fragrances, Nightshade, in August…
Guerlain L’Homme Ideal ~ fragrance review
No harm to the models (a paying gig is a paying gig)…but the print and video ads for the new Guerlain L’Homme Idéal1 are so daft! Believe me girls, there is nothing shocking, surprising, “dirty” or revelatory inside that bottle! (Maybe they’re just happy about the bottle, which everyone in Perfumeland seems to love.)
Guerlain hasn’t released a men’s pillar scent since 2008’s Guerlain Homme; and I just realized the last Guerlain men’s pillar scent I bought (recently) was 1992’s Héritage. Though I appreciate perfumer Thierry Wasser’s reformulations of Guerlain classics (and can’t wait to smell his sought-after Terracotta Le Parfum), I’ve never bought a Wasser perfume creation (which means nothing, except he and I have different styles/tastes)…
Heloise de V ~ new niche line
French niche line Héloïse de V launched earlier this year with three fragrances “rooted in the heart of the Uzès region“: Déjeuner sous le figuier, À l’heure de la cueillette and Au bord de la rivière…