In conjunction with his new Monsieur skincare and makeup line, Jean Paul Gaultier has launched a new body spray, Monsieur Eau du Matin. The tiles on the packaging design were inspired by the Paris metro.
Monsieur Eau du Matin was developed by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, and the notes feature citrus, petitgrain, spices, cedar and guaiac wood…
Despite the hundreds of new fragrances released each year, I seem to spend a lot of time exploring scents first created years ago. I feel like I have so much catching up to do with perfume that I barely have time to see what's happening at my local department store. Here is a belated review of a relatively new department store perfume, probably old news to many of you: Lanvin Rumeur.
Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian developed Rumeur, and it was released by Lanvin in 2006. Rumeur steals its name but not its olfactory inspiration from the original Lanvin Rumeur first released in 1934. The new Rumeur's notes include magnolia, white roses, jasmine sambac, seringa, orange blossom, lily of the valley, patchouli, musks, and ambroxan. A Women's Wear Daily article quotes a Lanvin representative saying, “It's not a young scent; it's for women from 30 years old to 80” (8/25/2006)…
Last February when I reviewed Annick Goutal’s Vanille Exquise, I noted that “I am not a huge vanilla fan in general, but there are cold, grey days when a bit of vanilla is just what you need”. Those days are upon us once more, so this morning I’m road testing three vanilla fragrances: Guerlain’s Spiritueuse Double Vanille, Le Labo’s Vanille 44 and Indult’s Tihota.
Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille has been all the rage on the boards and blogs, and it is easy enough to see why. This stuff is simply delicious…
The whole idea of niche fragrance is to offer something special and different, something you can’t find on the perfume counter at your local Macy’s. The best sort of niche perfume house, presumably, will put artistic integrity before mass appeal. I came to perfume addiction via niche, as it were, and I’m still an easy target: tell me you’ve got an incense by Bertrand Duchaufour made with the best possible materials or Jean Claude Ellena re-engineering lavender at the molecular level or Aurelien Guichard conjuring up 1960s pop culture, and I’m there.
But niche, like luxury, has become so ubiquitous as to lose its cachet…
Spanish fashion house Armand Basi has introduced Lovely Blossom, a new fruity floral fragrance for women. The scent…
…created by Takasago’s Francis Kurkdjian, opens on notes of apricot and orange blossom, leading to a heart of jasmine and plum. The base is composed of heliotrope and woods.
Armand Basi Lovely Blossom is available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette…