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A handful of roses ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Jessica on 1 June 2023 18 Comments

It might just be my imagination, and a feeling of tentative hope that my city has come through the worst of the pandemic, but the roses in my neighbors’ front yards and the local parks seem lusher than ever this year. I’ve also been wearing some new-ish and new-to-me rose fragrances to mark the May/June transition, so here are my thoughts on five of them.

Back in the early spring, I finally got myself over to the Saks Fifth Avenue flagship to sniff my way though Dries van Noten’s year-old fragrance collection. I admired a few of them, but my personal favorite of the group was Raving Rose…

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Dries Van Noten Orange Smoke & Sur Ma Peau ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 2 July 2022 Leave a Comment

Designer Dries Van Noten has launched two new “fresh contemporary” unisex fragrances, Orange Smoke and Sur Ma Peau. The scents can be worn alone or layered with any of the ten fragrances in the collection introduced earlier this year…

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The more character they have the better

Posted by Robin on 16 March 2022 4 Comments

Van Noten chose not to try out the fragrances with test audiences to see how they reacted to the products because “quite often they are made a little bit easier, which I didn’t want to do. The more character they have the better.”

— Designer Dries Van Noten talking about his new fragrances. Read more in Dries Van Noten: fragrance is ‘another layer, another emotion’ at Financial Times.

Dries Van Noten x 10 ~ new perfumes

Posted by Robin on 28 February 2022 29 Comments

Designer Dries Van Noten will launch a new beauty line this week, including 10 fragrances…

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Far more complicated than I thought it was going to be

Posted by Robin on 31 December 2013 3 Comments

I missed this earlier in the year: Dries Van Noten and Frédéric Malle talk about their collaboration on Dries Van Noten par Frédéric Malle. (They start out by talking about how great Barneys is though. Skip to 1:10 if you don't care.)

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