Barcelona-based Santa Eulalia will launch Rosa Aprilis, a new fragrance intended as an homage to Catalan culture…
Friday scent of the day 10/14
Happy Friday, and happy World Standards Day! Our community project for today: wear one of your Top 10 of Fall fragrances.
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 Etro Shaal Nur, from Erin’s Top 10 of Fall 2009. Erin says “…Shaal Nur smells both exotic and comfortable, and despite supposedly being named after an Indian princess, it feels unisex and very, very French.” Yep!
Reminder: 10/21 will be Trick Friday…
A Candy-cosmic journey
An animation for the "unique Pocket Size Collector Editions" of Prada Candy, Candy L’Eau, Prada Candy Florale and Candy Kiss.
Something she put her name on
The thing is, celebrity perfumes sell. Evidently, a lot of people want to smell like someone else. I was (and still am) such a Paris Hilton fanatic that I don’t remember initially registering how her perfume actually smelled because I was so excited to have and to wear something she made—or, at the very least, something she put her name on.
— Samantha Adler of Vogue writes about "buying into a fantasy". Read more at In Defense of Celebrity Perfume.
Tom Ford Orchid Soleil ~ fragrance review
The latest fragrance release from designer Tom Ford is Orchid Soleil, a new addition to the designer’s Signature Collection of feminine fragrances and a flanker to 2006’s Black Orchid. I have to admit that I didn’t really care for Black Orchid, nor for Violet Blonde. Something about Tom Ford fragrances just doesn’t “fit” me. But I received a sample vial of Orchid Soleil with a recent makeup purchase, so why not give it a try, right?
Orchid Soleil’s composition of bitter orange, pink pepper, cypress, tuberose, black orchid, spider lily, vanilla, chestnut cream accord and patchouli supposedly “captures the seductive warmth and reflective bare skin of the Tom Ford woman.” Since I’m apparently not “the Tom Ford woman,” I was surprised to find that I enjoyed it more than its sister scents…