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Cumming: the fragrance

Posted by Robin on 28 June 2005 35 Comments

Alan Cumming for Cumming: The Fragrance

Cumming: the fragrance is the brainchild of actor Alan Cumming, nose Christopher Brosius and creative director Jason Schell. It features notes of bergamot, black pepper, scotch pine, whiskey, cigar, heather, douglas fir, rubber, leather, Highland mud, peat fire, and white truffle.

According to the Cumming: the fragrance website, this is “a scent that is all about Sex, Scotch, Cigars and Scotland”. The top notes have all of the above, plus a heavy dose of pine and some burning rubber. It does not strike me as a perfume that is likely to sell based on the first whiff from a testing strip, and I wonder how it is doing in Sephora, where it will be competing with fragrances that are designed to smell better on paper than they do on skin…

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Perfume news: Hermes, Cumming

Posted by Robin on 25 March 2005 5 Comments

Thank you to Karen for sharing the wonderful news that the Hermessences will soon be available in all the Hermès boutiques, not just the New York & San Francisco stores. My local Hermès boutique says no, they will not be getting them…but I am hoping they are just misinformed.

Something else to look forward to: a new Hermessence fragrance, based on leather and florals. (via Parfum: Les Nouveautes)

And look for new products this year from the Alan Cumming fragrance line…

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