As previously reported, Patrick Dempsey, the star of Grey's Anatomy, will be launching a new fragrance for men in conjunction with Avon. Patrick Dempsey Unscripted will debut in November under the tag line “Follow Your Passion”:
Dempsey played a leading role in the development of Patrick Dempsey Unscripted and was intimately involved with the concept, name, package and olfactive notes…
Cacharel has launched new flankers for its Amor Amor and Amor Pour Homme lines.
Amor Amor Tentation (shown) is a woody oriental fragrance developed by perfumer Honorine Blanc. The notes include mandarin, ivy, jasmine, tiare, cedar and vanilla. It is available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum.
Amor Pour Homme Tentation was developed by perfumers Jacques Cavallier and Olivier Cresp…
Jessica Simpson, who as previously reported signed a fragrance deal with Parlux last year, will launch her first fragrance, Fancy Jessica Simpson, next month. According to Simpson…
With Fancy, I wanted to create a pretty fragrance, one that I could be just as comfortable wearing on the red carpet or every day with my favorite jeans.
Ms. Simpson reportedly sought “a retro vintage look” and “a romantic and feminine scent”…
Christian Dior will launch Dior Homme Sport, a new fragrance for men fronted by actor Jude Law, this month. It is the fourth in the Dior Homme range (see Dior Homme, Dior Homme Cologne, Dior Homme Intense) but has no olfactory relationship to the earlier iris-based scents.
The new fragrance is a citrusy cologne…
Sarah Jessica Parker’s latest is Covet Pure Bloom, the first (and if I had to guess, the last*) flanker to last year’s Covet fragrance. Covet may or not be discontinued, but it has disappeared from several department stores so I can only assume that it was not the instant crowd pleaser that Lovely was.
I liked Covet, in fact, I picked it as the best celebrity fragrance of 2007 (as I noted at the time, some people really hated it, but at least it wasn’t so mind-numbingly dull that nobody cared either way). Covet’s opening was more challenging than Lovely’s, and to my mind, it was considerably more challenging on paper than it was on skin — on a test strip, it was very lemony-green and sharp and reminiscent of citronella, and it stayed that way a good long time. I didn’t think of it as a wildly risky fragrance, but perhaps anything that isn’t an instant crowd pleaser (especially on paper) is risky given today’s competitive celebrity fragrance market.
Enter Covet Pure Bloom. I sort of expected Covet Pure Bloom to be the pinkified, floralated version of Covet, with the challenging parts tamped down…