Yves Saint Laurent will launch Cuir, Vinyle and Velours this fall. The trio of unisex fragrances, inspired by “materials eternally associated with the night”, joins Tuxedo, Caban, Saharienne, Trench and Caftan in Le Vestiaire des Parfums…
Inside the Perfume Cabinet ~ Jessica
In talking to Jessica — yes, our Jessica — about her perfume life, I tried to squeeze out a juicy story. Maybe her love of roses had to do with an ex-lover who brought her a dozen lipstick pink rosebuds every Tuesday? Or, maybe it’s because she won the Miss American Beauty pageant at the horticulture society? But no. The best I got was that her first rose-centered perfume was Avon Roses, Roses, and it came in a pink bottle shaped like a pig with a screw-off head.
Jessica’s path to perfumistahood will probably sound familiar to a lot of us. She grew up in suburban New Jersey with a quiet mother who wore dramatic fragrances, such as Rochas Femme and Guerlain Shalimar, and a grandmother who wore Caron Bellodgia and gave her Avon perfume in figurative bottles, including the pink pig…
Aedes de Venustas Grenadille D’Afrique ~ new fragrance
West Village niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas will launch Grenadille D’Afrique next month…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2016, part 11
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US. Today’s post includes limited edition solid perfume compacts from Estée Lauder, plus collector bottles from Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Guerlain.
From Estée Lauder, two compacts created by luxury jewelry designer Monica Rich Kosann. At left, the Beautiful Wise Owl, and at right, the Pleasures Turtle Endurance (and see more here). £300 each at Harrods in the UK…
Online fragrance shopping
New at harrods (UK): Charlotte Tilbury Scent of a Dream.
New at nordstrom: Molton Brown Rosa Absolute, selected Tiziana Terenzi.
New at selfridges (UK): Tom Ford body sprays.
New at thebay (CA): Armani Prive Ambre Eccentrico.