Montblanc has launched Lady Emblem Elixir, a new fragrance for women. Lady Emblem Elixir is a flanker to 2015’s Lady Emblem…
Cartier La Panthere Noir Absolu ~ new perfume
Cartier has launched La Panthère Noir Absolu, a new flanker to 2014’s La Panthère fragrance for women. La Panthère Noir Absolu is currently exclusive to the Middle East…
Tauer Perfumes L’Air du Desert Marocain & Au Coeur du Desert ~ fragrance review
Displayed on the wall of the store where I work are majestic African tribal robes, Indonesian necklaces as big as breastplates, elaborate Japanese altars, and heavy strings of shells from Papua New Guinea. I love the necklaces, especially, and the other day I finally tried one on. It was grand and angular and cold on my skin, and I felt queenly. Then I saw myself in a mirror. I looked like a mouse in a crown. As much as I loved it, it overwhelmed me.
This is how I’ve felt about Tauer Perfumes L’Air du Désert Marocain. I adore the fragrance’s heady, helicopter-over-the-Grand-Canyon feel, but ultimately it’s too hard for pallid me to pull off, and I swapped away my bottle. This year, Tauer released Au Coeur du Désert, an Extrait interpretation of L’Air du Désert Marocain. I may have found my tribal robe at last…
Chloe Love Story Eau Sensuelle ~ new perfume
Chloé will launch Love Story Eau Sensuelle, a new fragrance for women. Love Story Eau Sensuelle is a flanker to 2014’s Love Story…
Burberry My Burberry Black ~ fragrance review
We’ve had the usual wave of “dark” and “noir” flankers this fall, and here’s another one: Burberry’s My Burberry Black, a flanker to My Burberry (2014). Like the original My Burberry, My Burberry Black was developed by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian. It’s described as “an intense and sensual reinterpretation…a London garden amidst a gathering storm; heavy rain contrasting with the warm and captivating flora,” and its notes include jasmine, candied rose, peach nectar, amber and patchouli.
I tried My Burberry when it was released and it didn’t make much of an impression on me. I just revisited it and it still seems to me like an inoffensive sweet pea perfume, easy to wear to work or brunch. My first impression of My Burberry Black, on the other hand, is that it’s best reserved for evening wear…