Fragrance Week, sponsored by The Fragrance Foundation, will be held October 16 through the 20th. This year, activities will be held in New York City, San Francisco and Los Angeles; for a complete list of events, see the Fragrance Foundation website and this article in the New York Sun.
A run-down on the celebrity fragrance wars…
Forbidden Fruit is the debut scent from the television series Desperate Housewives, now in its third season on ABC. Created under arrangements with Coty, the Forbidden Fruit fragrance is a fruity floriental with notes of Rome apples, orange blossom, peach, wisteria (a nod to the show’s fictional Wisteria Lane), jasmine, ylang-ylang, passion lily, cedarwood, sandalwood, vanilla and tonka bean.
Despite the name and the advertising, Forbidden Fruit is not quite as fruity as I expected. It starts with tart apple with a touch of citrus…
Jennifer Lopez launched Live, her fourth fragrance, last year. Live was developed by perfumer Dominique Ropion, and the notes include lemon, orange, pineapple, redcurrant, peony, violet, caramel, tonka beans, vanilla and sandalwood.
Not surprisingly, Live is a fruity floral — hey, almost all celebrity fragrance releases these days are fruity florals, and despite what I keep reading about how the trends are changing, it sometimes seems like at least 90% of all fragrance releases are fruity florals, and sweet ones at that. It isn’t my favorite category so it doesn’t exactly strike joy in my heart, but if it is yours, I don’t think you have anything to worry about for the near future…
Parfum d’Empire has launched two new fragrances, Iskander and Cuir Ottoman. Iskander is a chypre fragrance with notes of citron, grapefruit, tangerine, tarragon, coriander, orange blossom, moss, musk and amber. Cuir Ottoman is a leather fragrance with notes of iris, Egyptian jasmine, styrax, tolu balsam, benzoin and incense. (via osmoz)
Sonia Kashuk will release 3 new fragrances…
Perfumer Neil Morris rates some of the recent celebrity fragrance releases in The Boston Herald. On Baby Phat Golden Goddess:
I like it the best out of all of them. It’s pleasant and fun for young women 18 to 35. I like it because it’s well-blended, it’s round and it has really clean edges. Nothing jumps out at you…