Socialite, heiress and fashion icon (she has been described as the best dressed woman in the world) Daphne Guinness will launch Daphne, her debut fragrance, in September. The scent was made in collaboration with Comme des Garçons. Guinness noted that perfume “…takes you away from the everyday and you are transported to something in your past. It’s a very mysterious thing…”
Ermenegildo Zegna has launched Zegna Colonia, the line’s latest fragrance for men:
With Zegna Colonia, the brand unveils its personal vision of ‘la Dolce Vita’. A parenthesis of peaceful happiness bathed in the warm embrace of the Italian sun. A snapshot of an elegant silhouette and the entrancing eyes of a man dressed in white linen, captured in the space of an instant…
Salvador Dali will launch Black Sun Sport, a flanker to 2007's Black Sun for men. Like Black Sun, Black Sun Sport was developed by perfumer Antoine Lie, and the new scent is “designed to accompany the modern man in his active, sporting life”.
The woody citrus fragrance features notes of yuzu, nutmeg, geranium, cedar, amber and musk…
Cerruti will launch L'Essence de Cerruti, a new modern musky leather scent for men, in February. L'Essence de Cerruti "caters to a more sophisticated, classic taste than Cerruti’s previous fragrance, 1881 Black".
The fragrance was developed by perfumer Antoine Lie, and the notes include bergamot, white pepper, leather, saffron, sensuous woods, musk, amber and cedar…
“For Davidoff Adventure, my inspiration has been what I dream about adventure…a dream of wild nature where bright colors and hot spices blend with the humid freshness of the rainforest and the sensuality of exotic woods,” Antoine Lie, perfumer*
I don’t know how much traveling Lie has done, but with Adventure, he’s stayed on the beaten path and only dreamed of wild places and rough journeys. Davidoff, who may have reined in Lie’s more daring ideas, makes many claims in its Adventure ad campaign: Adventure “explores uncharted fragrance territory” “is daring and elemental” and was “inspired by … wildernesses and raw, masculine emotion.” “Rainforest,” “wild earth,” “intense thrill,” “discovery,” “exoticism,” and “challenge” are reference points for the aura Adventure aspires to capture. This is all reminiscent of Ralph Lauren’s ad campaign for its Polo (armchair) Explorer fragrance…