MariaLux, the niche brand of Dutch designer Lilian Driessen and her husband, perfumer Alessandro Gaultieri of Nasomatto and Orto Parisi, has launched two new unisex fragrances, Aramesh and Mogadess. The brand debuted in 2012 with Truly, Madly and Deeply…
New at bloomingdales: Acqua di Parma Colonia Leather.
New at escentual (UK): Paul Smith Sunshine, Lacoste Live, Bvlgari Omnia Indian Garnet.
Hugo Boss has launched Ma Vie Pour Femme, a new fragrance for women. Ma Vie Pour Femme is fronted by actress Gwyneth Paltrow…
Italian niche line Santa Maria Novella has introduced Cala Rossa (red cove), a new fragrance inspired by Capraia, one of the 7 islands in the Tuscan Archipelago…
Here’s the blurb about Bull’s Blood* by indie perfume house Imaginary Authors (yes, the “authors” are from the world of make-believe, no need to google them or search on Amazon for their works!):
Devante Valéreo was raised in a dusty Spanish village on the Balearic Sea. He fondly recalled going to the bullfights with his father, an ex-picador, and credited those early experiences with inspiring his most popular novella, Bull’s Blood. The book’s lurid tale of seduction garnered obscenity charges against the author. Though the charges were rejected by the court, a ban on the sale of his works persisted for a number of years.
A fixture in Barcelona, smoking cigarillos and writing in the cafés and bars into the night, Valéreo disappeared as a fugitive in 1967 after a highly publicized bar scuffle with American sailors, one of whom later died from his injuries. ‘A man who has killed,’ he wrote in Bull’s Blood, ‘is a man who knows passion.’
Really? I’m pretty sure I know passion, and I’ve never killed anyone — yet (Valéreo, I assume, “wrote” pulp fiction). And the bullfighting connection with Bull’s Blood? I could do without it…