Jo Malone will follow 2011’s Tea Fragrance Blends collection with Sugar & Spice, a new limited edition quintet inspired by “quintessential British pudding” flavors. Look for them in March…
DSquared2 Potion for Woman ~ new fragrance
DSquared2 will launch Potion for Woman in September. The new fragrance is the feminine counterpart to last year’s Potion for men, and like that scent is meant as ‘the scent of seduction’…
Lalique Hommage a l’Homme ~ new fragrance
Lalique has launched Hommage à l’Homme, a new fragrance for men celebrating the firm’s 20th anniversary as a perfume house…
Thierry Mugler Womanity Eau Pour Elles ~ new fragrance
Thierry Mugler will launch Womanity Eau Pour Elles in May. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 2010’s Womanity, and is said to be a sparkling, fruity and playful version of the original…
More quick sniffs: Roca Parfums Lemon Cloud, Especially Escada, Lalique Encre Noire Pour Elle
Another round of quickie reviews: Roca Perfums Núvol di Llimona / Lemon Cloud, Especially Escada and Lalique Encre Noire Pour Elle.
Roca Perfums Núvol di Llimona / Lemon Cloud
The opening is truly good enough to eat, and it should be. Núvol di Llimona (or “Lemon Cloud”) was developed by pastry chef Jordi Roca of the renowned Cellar de Can Roca. It’s supposed to be a lemon muffin soaked in milk — or “an all-pervading, ethereal cloud of lemon surrounding a sponge cake treated to milk and sweeties”, take your pick — and that’s just what it is, a sheer lemon sugar fragrance with subtle cake notes, lightly charred, lightly milky, not overly sweet. It’s sort of like a foodier version of Fresh Lemon Sugar, and it’s highly enjoyable — if I still worked in an office, it’s just the sort of thing I’d want to have in my top right desk drawer for a quick dose of comfort and cheer in the late afternoon. Even though I don’t work in an office, I’d still like a bottle, and it would be an excellent (if spendy) choice for a very young girl who wanted her own perfume…