Salvatore Ferragamo will launch Incanto Bliss, a new sparkling fruity floral fragrance for women, this coming January in Japan, March elsewhere in the world. Incanto Bliss is the latest flanker to 2003's Incanto perfume, and follows Incanto Dream, Incanto Charms, Incanto Shine and Incanto Heaven.
Incanto Bliss was developed by perfumer Beatrice Piquet…
Gianfranco Ferré will launch Ferré Rose Princesse, a new fragrance inspired by the Princesse de Monaco hybrid tea rose, in Japan by the end of the 2008. It will be distributed elsewhere next year…
Lulu Castagnette has launched Luluforever, a new fruity floral fragrance for women:
A true concentrate of energizing and glamorous freshness!
Ideal for trendy and dynamic young women, Luluforever is a fresh and feminine fragrance, full of energy. It is the quintessence of the spirit of big cities, where women are particularly active and fashion conscious…
According to my local weather forecast, it is currently “46°F Feels Like 39°F”. I can vouch for the “feels like” part — it is darned cold and dreary for May. I considered just staying in bed, but instead I thought I’d spray on a bit of the tropics today…
First up, Floral Solaire (or Golden Floral), the fourth release from niche line Filles des Iles. Filles des Iles is the latest venture from the same team that brought us the strikingly unconventional fragrance Dinner by Bobo — remember that one? It was once described, somewhere (sorry I can’t remember where), as meat served by a sweaty waiter. This time around, they’re doing rather conventional tropical florals, which presumably have more widespread appeal. Floral Solaire, developed by perfumer Celine Ellena, is described as “an expressive, teasing and fascinating scent”, and features notes of cedrat, star fruit, tropical breeze, passion fruit, lily, tiara, orchid, flamboyant, amber, benzoin, soft sand, musk and vanilla.
Tropical floral is probably not my favorite category to begin with…
“Vintage tattoo wear” line Ed Hardy launched their first fragrances this year. The fashion line, from designer Christian Audigier, is inspired by the tattoo designs of Don Ed Hardy, and while I found the bottle a bit less inspiring in person than it was in pictures — isn’t that usually the way? plastic always looks better in pictures — it’s still a great design. I don’t know that I’d wear a hoodie with the “Love Kills Slowly” skull and the “Life Love Luck” trail of roses, but on a perfume bottle it’s fun, and it makes a nice change from the dreary parade of cookie-cutter bottles on display at Macy’s.
The fragrance itself promised more fun. It was described as “super vibrant and sexy”, and “vintage floralcy with a Rock’n Roll Edge” and a “dark eeriness”. Anyone who reads here regularly already knows where this is going, right? If you want a strawberry-laced fruity floral this year, you’ve plenty of choice, and Ed Hardy will probably suit as well as anything else, but if you’re looking for super vibrant, sexy, edgy or eerie, you’ll have to look elsewhere…