Niche line Byredo has launched Westbrook, a new fragrance in collaboration with basketball player Russell Westbrook. Westbrook’s second fashion collection for Barneys, Westbrook XO Barneys, debuted last month…
Acqua di Parma Colonia Club ~ new fragrance
Italian niche line Acqua di Parma will launch Colonia Club, a new fragrance for men. Colonia Club is a flanker to the brand’s Colonia…
30 percent different
Most humans perceive a given odor similarly. But the genes for the molecular machinery that humans use to detect scents are about 30 percent different in any two people, says neuroscientist Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. This variation means that nearly every person’s sense of smell is subtly different.
— Read more at Sense of smell is strictly personal, study suggests at ScienceNews.
Nina Ricci L’Extase ~ fragrance review
Nina Ricci’s perfume distribution in the US is spotty. You can find the old classic L’Air du Temps at Nordstrom or Macy’s, and Macy’s also has the youth-oriented Nina. That’s about it. Bloomingdales, Saks and Neiman Marcus don’t have anything (although Neiman Marcus has some lovely items from the fashion line at the moment), nor does Sephora. I never saw Ricci Ricci or Mademoiselle Ricci here at all, although admittedly I did not look all that hard.
I was curious about L’Extase, the latest, which is geared older than Nina but younger than L’Air du Temps. +1: it’s a musky floriental from perfumer Francis Kurkdjian. -1: the advertising, with Laetitia Casta, is the usual drearily predictable writhing we’ve already seen a million times over…
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Fleuriste ~ new perfume
Indie line Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Fleuriste, a new carnation fragrance…