Lancôme has launched La Vie Est Belle Eau de Toilette, a new fresher and lighter variation on 2012’s La Vie Est Belle Eau de Parfum (and see also: La Vie Est Belle L’Eau de Parfum Légère)…
Yves Saint Laurent Manifesto L’Eclat ~ new fragrance
Yves Saint Laurent will launch Manifesto L’Eclat in Spring 2014. The new fragrance for women is a variation on 2012’s Manifesto, and follows Manifesto L’Elixir…
Diesel Loverdose Tattoo ~ fragrance review
Diesel, the youth-oriented Italian fashion house, is not a brand I have any particular affinity for, but I really liked their 2011 fragrance Loverdose. When I reviewed it, I said it was not the stuff of genius, but it was great fun, and we all know that great fun is scarce on mainstream perfume counters.
The new flanker, Loverdose Tattoo, promised to amp up the (supposedly already formidable) sex appeal of the original, but instead, they’ve done just what the rice steam accord in the notes1 implied they might do: they’ve turned it into a comfort scent. Fine by me, decent comfort scents are nearly as scarce as great fun…
Burberry Brit Rhythm ~ fragrance review
Burberry just released Burberry Brit Rhythm for (young) men; it’s a flanker to Brit for Men (2004) and marks the beginning of Burberry’s in-house perfume development (adieu InterParfums). Though InterParfums is gone, silliness remains: Brit Rhythm was “inspired by the music in the brand’s DNA” — huh? what’s so musical about a trench coat? (I own a Burberry trench and have probably done some singing while wearing it…though I don’t think I was inspired by my coat to burst into song.) Burberry also produced an unmusical Brit Rhythm video that looks more like a lead-up to a fashion show than a rock concert. Do young guys still aspire, by the millions, to rock-singer status? You’d think so judging by mainstream perfume advertising.
It took three perfumers to come up with Burberry Brit Rhythm: Dominique Ropion, Anne Flipo and Olivier Polge…
Burberry Brit Rhythm ~ new fragrance
Burberry will launch Burberry Brit Rhythm, a new fragrance for men, later this month. Burberry Brit Rhythm is a flanker to 2004’s Brit for Men, and is the brand’s first fragrance developed in house — Burberry ended their licensing arrangements with InterParfums last year. The new scent was reportedly “inspired by the music in the brand’s DNA”…