Happy One Hit Wonder Friday! Our community project for today: wear something that is the only fragrance you really like by the brand, with partial credit for a fragrance that is the only one made by the brand.
As always, do chime in even if you aren’t participating in the community project.
My pick: Lubin Idole.
Reminder: next Friday, 2/27, is Spicy Friday…
New at beautyhabit: DS & Durga Debaser, Industria line.
New at first-in-fragrance (DE): Papillon Perfumery line, Initio line, Morph line, Le Cercle de Parfumeurs line.
New at indigoperfumery: Shay & Blue Watermelons, DS & Durga Debaser.
New at ulta: Jimmy Choo Exotic.
English Laundry has launched Cambridge Knight, a new fragrance for men. Cambridge Knight follows 2014’s Oxford Bleu…
Roses, roses all the way! It’s the annual spring rush of my favorite flower in fragrance. I’ve recently reviewed L’Artisan Parfumeur Rose Privée and Aerin Rose de Grasse, and today I’m taking a close sniff of Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s À la Rose. Yes, it’s another “ode to femininity,” another homage to the rose fields of Grasse, another pink juice…but I’m still not tired of roses, so onwards we go.
In À la Rose, “an eau de parfum that evokes the crisp tenderness of rose petals and a radiant aura” as well as “a free-spirited elegance,” Francis Kurkdjian has brought together notes of Damascena rose, Centifolia rose, bergamot, orange, violet, magnolia blossom, cedar wood and musk. (As Robin earlier noted, the fragrance was inspired by Marie Antoinette’s love of roses and the painting Marie-Antoinette à la Rose by Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun…)
Le Couvent des Minimes has launched Eau des Mâtines (‘Botanical Cologne of the Morning’), a new unisex fragrance…
