New at beautyhabit: Arty Fragrance Reve de la Reine.
New at bloomingdales: Acqua di Parma Colonia Club, Cartier Baiser Vole Fraiche.
New at macys: Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Cucumber.
New at neimanmarcus: Bvlgari Eau Parfumée au thé bleu, Armani Ambre Eccentrico, Byredo + Oliver Peoples.
Happy Perfume Surprise Friday! Our community project for today: wear a fragrance you expected to hate but loved, or, give another chance to a perfume you expected to love but hated, or surprise us with another interpretation of “perfume surprise”. What fragrance did you pick?
As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m wearing Hermès Osmanthe Yunnan. I bought it unsniffed the year it came out, 2005, and I expected to like it and I did…
Singer Ariana Grande will launch Ari by Ariana Grande, a new fruity floral gourmand fragrance for women, in September…
Reminiscence will launch Patchouli Blanc in September. The new woody oriental fragrance is a flanker to 1970’s Patchouli fragrance for women…
Isabel is the latest in Tocca‘s collection of feminine-named fragrances, and its scent-personality is described this way: “A chic city girl from Barcelona, Isabel is an unconventional yet remarkable beauty. Like her hometown, she is eclectic, unpredictable and captivating.” Isabel includes top notes of bergamot, Mediterranean orange, pear and sangria accord; middle notes of Spanish rose, leather, vetiver and Turkish rose petals; and base notes of guaiacwood, amber and vanilla.
I’ve tried a fair number of Tocca’s perfumes, and they tend to fall into two categories for me: ones that I like and then can’t remember much about later, and ones that are complete scrubbers for me…