Estee Lauder White Linen ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 12 March 2018 58 Comments

Estée Lauder White Linen vintage advert

Mention Estée Lauder Youth Dew, and a chorus of “my grandma wore that!” arises. Estée Lauder White Linen might get a similar response, but this time about mothers, especially if those mothers joined the PTA, kept a tidy garden, and knew how to spray-starch a shirt. At one time, it seemed like every shopping mall exuded White Linen. Now, you rarely smell it, except maybe when you lean in to kiss Aunt Phyllis on the cheek.

Sophia Grojsman (the nose behind Estée Lauder Beautiful and Spellbound, Lancôme Trésor and Yves Saint Laurent Paris, among others) developed White Linen, and it launched in 1978…

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A single peaty fragrance accord

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2018 2 Comments

A spot for Floris + Kilchoman Islay.

DKNY Be Delicious Flower Pop ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2018 3 Comments

DKNY Be Delicious Be Delicious Flower Pop

Donna Karan has launched DKNY Be Delicious Flower Pop, a new trio of limited edition flankers to 2004’s Be Delicious…

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We only had love and that is why it worked so well

Posted by Robin on 12 March 2018 8 Comments

He also created one of the first “celebrity fragrances,” L’Interdit (French for “forbidden”), designed initially for and later endorsed by [Audrey] Hepburn. “We never had a contract, like other designers do,” Mr. Givenchy told the Chicago Tribune in 1989. “We only had love and that is why it worked so well.”

— Hubert de Givenchy passed away this weekend at the age of 91. Read more at Hubert de Givenchy, French clothing designer who transformed Audrey Hepburn into a style legend, dies at 91 at The Washington Post, and/or see In Memoriam: Hubert de Givenchy’s Best Looks in Vogue.