Monday, yet again. Plus, where I live, ice, yet again. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing L’Artisan Parfumeur La Chasse aux Papillons Extrême. It is from perfumer Anne Flipo, who did lots of the brand’s pretty florals between 1999 and 2007. I wish they’d have her come back and do more.
Reminder: this Friday, 6 March, we’re celebrating International Women’s Day…
New at macys: Ralph Lauren Polo Red Intense.
New at saksfifthavenue: Acqua di Parma Acqua Nobile Rosa, Le Labo solid perfumes, Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue summer editions.
New at selfridges (UK): Juliette Has A Gun Gentlewoman, Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Eau Fraiche, Cartier Eau de Cartier Vetiver Bleu.
Elizabeth Arden has launched 5th Avenue NYC Premiere, a new limited edition floriental fragrance for women. 5th Avenue NYC Premiere is a flanker to 2013’s 5th Avenue NYC, which was a flanker to 1996′s 5th Avenue fragrance for women…
Italian fashion house Blumarine will launch Ninfea (Waterlily), the brand’s latest fragrance for women. Ninfea was inspired by ‘spontaneous, romantic and sentimental’ women…
The seemingly inexorable rise in the number of women’s fragrances year-on-year was halted in 2014 when the launch pipeline contracted by -4.4% according to new data from Fragrances of the World 2015. Niche scents fell even further.
— TRBusiness, reporting on Michael Edwards' numbers for 2014. Note that we still got more overall fragrance launches than the year before! Read more at Women’s fragrance launches fall by -4.4%.