Juicy Couture has launched Viva La Juicy Glacé, a new flanker to 2008’s Viva La Juicy. Viva La Juicy Glacé follows 2016’s Viva La Juicy Sucré…
Lancome Parfait De Roses & Roses Berberanza ~ new fragrances
Lancôme has launched Parfait De Rôses and Rôses Berberanza, new additions to the Les Parfums Grands Crus collection…
The daily lemming
Hey, how come nobody told me? Here are Tauer's new Room Perfumes, in three flavors: Rose Nip ("The queen of flowers - rose - artistically sublimated to perfume your home"), Cedar Ride ("Cedarwood - from the Atlas Mountains - graced with floral ambergris to perfume your home") and Ylang Calm ("Ylangylang - tropical ecstasy - in splendid harmony with lemon blossoms to perfume your home"). They're all micro encapsulated in water, and they come in 175 ml, CHF 59 (about $60) each, with free shipping.
Cucumber-melon-scented air fresheners
Call it a win for sensitive-nosed riders. Metro has abandoned plans to install more cucumber-melon-scented air fresheners on the Green Line.
The kerfuffle over a well-meaning olfactory endeavor came about last month, after Metro announced it had conducted a pilot to try to improve the smell on 6000-series trains by using air fresheners installed in the ventilation system.
— Read more at Your Metro train is going to smell like, well Metro, again at The Washington Post.
Tauer Perfumes L’Eau ~ fragrance review
Tauer Perfumes has done citrus fragrances before, most notably with Orange Star (2010) and Cologne du Maghreb (2011). Based on the name, I thought the newest, L’Eau, might be the first Tauer riff on a citrus classic cologne for hot summer days, but no, that’s not what it is. It is about citrus — it was reportedly “inspired by a lemontree in bloom on Andy Tauer’s veranda in crisp Zurich morning air”, and the notes follow suit: bergamot, lemon, orange, lemon blossom, iris flowers, musk, ambergris, timber and sandalwood. And L’Eau does start with a nice sparkle of lemonade, and it does start bright and cheerful.
But L’Eau has more heft than you’d expect from a classic cologne, and the “classic” citrus sparkle / juiciness is short-lived, as L’Eau moves quickly into something more modern and diffuse…