Fashion's Night Out at Barneys on Madison and Sixty-First in New York City on September 10th, includes appearances by Frederic Malle, who will sign bottles and offer personal fragrance consultations from 7 to 9 pm, and Fabrice Penot of Le Labo, who will offer fragrance consultations from 6 to 8. More information is available here, and many thanks to Eric for the tip!
Frederic Malle Editions de Parfums Geranium Pour Monsieur ~ fragrance review
As I imagine him, the Géranium Pour Monsieur man is “casual” but always well groomed. He enjoys nature — sunshine, the sounds of birds, crickets and cicadas. The Géranium Pour Monsieur man can’t walk past a blossom without sniffing it. He rubs leaves between his palms and scratches bark with his fingernails to savor their aromas. The Géranium Pour Monsieur man, his dog at his side, would happily spend a quiet afternoon following a butterfly through country fields — a sprig of fresh, sweet grass between his lips, a wildflower tucked in his jacket buttonhole.
Frederic Malle Editions de Parfums Géranium Pour Monsieur is a charming and unpretentious fragrance (outdoorsy, but not “sporty”) created by perfumer Dominique Ropion; its notes include geranium, mint, rhodinol, aniseed, clove, cinnamon, sandalwood, incense resinoid, styrax benzoin, and white musk. When I first read Géranium Pour Monsieur’s ingredients list, I was worried the spices and musk would end up masking the mint and geranium, but spice and musk are used judiciously and don’t distort the slightly floral, herbal “greens” and dry woods in the fragrance…
The smell I hate…
The smell I hate more than anything on the planet is the smell of the airport duty-free shop. The mix of fragrances is quite horrible and I didn’t want my stores to smell of anything.
— Frederic Malle, quoted in Scents of self in the Australian, explaining the inspiration for the "smelling columns" in the Frederic Malle boutiques.
Frederic Malle Geranium Pour Monsieur ~ new fragrance
Frédéric Malle will launch Géranium pour Monsieur in May; it is expected to reach the United States in June. The new fragrance was developed by perfumer Dominique Ropion, who already has three fragrances in the Frédéric Malle line: Carnal Flower, Une Fleur de Cassie and Vétiver Extraordinaire.
Géranium pour Monsieur was inspired by the Frédéric Malle Anterenea soap…
Frederic Malle Dans Tes Bras ~ fragrance review
Dans Tes Bras is the latest from Frederic Malle. It’s the brand’s 17th fragrance (time flies!) and the second from perfumer Maurice Roucel (he also developed Musc Ravageur). Dans Tes Bras aims to capture the scent of warm, salty skin — Malle described it as “saltiness and a hint of sunscreen” and noted that the “…idea was to depict intimacy – when you travel through it, you get the scent of skin.”*
Dans Tes Bras is, simply put, a strange fragrance…