Yves Rocher will launch Quelques Notes d’Amour, a new fragrance for women, in September. Quelques Notes d’Amour hopes to capture the euphoria and wonder of falling in love…
B Balenciaga ~ new fragrance
Balenciaga will launch B Balenciaga, a new fragrance for women and the first from the brand under designer Alexander Wang. Per Mr. Wang…
Roberto Cavalli Just Cavalli Him ~ new fragrance
Roberto Cavalli will launch Just Cavalli for Him, the masculine counterpart to last year’s Just Cavalli, in July…
Lanvin Me ~ fragrance review
Lanvin’s latest fragrance for women is the new Lanvin Me. Per Lanvin, its credo is “be myself, become ME”, but it also promises to embody elegance, style and Parisian chic — if that doesn’t sound like you, perhaps you need Lanvin Me all the more?
Elegance, style and Parisian chic are personified here by a fruity and sweet floral gourmand, with a decent dose of blueberry in the opening and a full-bodied floral heart. There’s also plenty of licorice (the notes: mandarin, blueberry, licorice, rose, tuberose and sandalwood). Like nearly any licorice-heavy fragrance, it calls to mind the gold standard, Lolita Lempicka, but only vaguely — this one has a warm woody base, but without the Thierry Mugler Angel-inspired dark patchouli sugar. It might be more useful to think of it as a kind of cross between Diesel Loverdose and Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb…
Roberto Verino RV Pure Woman ~ new fragrance
Roberto Verino will launch RV Pure Woman, the feminine counterpart to 2011’s RV Pure Man, in June…