Calvin Klein will launch Eternity Night and Eternity Night for Men in August. The new fragrances are flankers to 1988’s Eternity and 1989’s Eternity for Men; the scents will be fronted by Christy Turlington Burns and Ed Burns…
There’s only a handful of them
It’s not like there are other fragrances houses to go to. Whether you’re working in mass or working in prestige, you still have to go to the same perfumers, and there’s only a handful of them. A perfumer that works on a high-level prestige fragrance can also work on a mass fragrance. It’s the same noses: you’re getting the same person and the same level of understanding of the world of fragrance.
— Elizabeth Musmanno of the Fragrance Foundation, from Trickle-Down Fragrances: Mass-Market Perfumes Developed by High-Priced Noses at The New York Times.
Guerlain Limon Verde ~ fragrance review
When I reviewed Lys Soleia back in 2012, I said I have something of a love-hate relationship with the Aqua Allegoria range from Guerlain. Aqua Allegoria started out as a youth-oriented line highlighting natural materials, but it’s evolved, over the years, to something better expressed by the tag line they now use on some of the advertising: “the collection of fresh fragrances”. And as “fresh”, likewise, has evolved over the years to mean synthetic clean notes instead of things that are naturally fresh, like sparkling citrus and light florals, so the Aqua Allegorias have followed suit. My main complaint with Lys Soleia, and Jasminora before it, was how close they came to smelling like scented laundry products.1
In its favor, Limon Verde, the latest Aqua Allegoria, does not smell like laundry products. Its inspirations, expressed as the exhortation to “savour a Caipirinha under the lemon trees along the Amazon River”, fit well with this year’s emphasis on Brazil…
Tous Love ~ new fragrance
Spanish house Tous will launch Tous Love in September. The new fragrance for women is the first in a projected series called Tous Moments; Tous Love was inspired by all types of love and is intended for ‘free spirits’…
Tuesday scent of the day 6/10
Happy Tuesday! Care to tell us your scent of the day, and why you thought it would fit today?
I’m wearing Guerlain Limon Verde, and I picked it for the simple reason that I’m finishing up my review.
Reminder: this Friday (Friday the 13th!) wear your own version of ‘Eau de Protection’…