Now available at Aveda: the 2009 Light the Way candle. This year’s model, which honors Earth Month and the Aveda brand’s 30th anniversary, features soy wax and a “French-inspired stress-relieving aroma exclusively comprised of Ecocert certified organic ingredients, including lavender, lavandin and clary sage”.
100% of the proceeds from the candle will go to support Aveda’s Earth Month partner, Global Greengrants Fund…
The Six Scents Fragrance Initiative debuted last year. The project is a collaboration between Symrise, Metaproject and Seven New York: each year, they’ll release six new fragrances, each one pairing a Symrise perfumer with a designer, and donate a portion of the proceeds to charity. The beneficiary of the 2008 collection will be Designers Against AIDS.
Several of the fragrances in the 2008 collection were interesting (I’m still mulling over No. 2, Wicken 3000 oops, make that No. 4, Diagonal) but No. 3, The Spirit of Wood was the only one that inspired love at first sniff. No. 3 was developed by perfumer Philippe Paparella-Paris for Cosmic Wonder Light Source, the fashion line of Japanese designer Yukinori Maeda, and it’s worth repeating the perfumer’s statement from the ad copy…
Boots has launched a duo of new fragrances to benefit BBC's Children in Need 2008 campaign:
Summon up the memories of idyllic childhood moments! The purchase of Hug will help to change the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in the UK…
The Six Scents Fragrance Initiative is a new, ongoing collaboration between Symrise, Metaproject and Seven New York. The group plans to launch six new fragrances every year with a percentage of the proceeds going to charity. Six Scents: Series One will launch next month, and will benefit Designers Against AIDS' International AIDS Awareness Education Center in Antwerp, Belgium.
Each of the six fragrances was developed by a celebrated designer working in conjunction with a Symrise perfumer. The fragrances for Series One, curated by Joseph Quartana of Seven New York, are:
Fragrance 1: Urban Tropicalia ~ by Alexandre Herchcovitch. According to perfumer Joachim Correll, “The inspiration for this fragrance was driven by the way that Alexandre creates fashion: The creative liberty he uses to design fashion which can be used equally by men or women…”
Demeter has launched Pinkitude No. 1, a new fragrance to benefit the Susan G Komen foundation:
PINKITUDE is fashion with compassion and attitude. It says you are mindful about body and spirit.
Demeter is pleased to donate 20% of our sales of Pinkitude to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, to help fulfill the promise to end breast cancer forever…