The big Tom Ford gift for 2008: the Tom Ford Private Blend coffret, with 2 ml rollerballs in each of the 12 original Tom Ford Private Blend fragrances. Says Tom, “Private Blend is my own scent laboratory; it's where I have the ability to create very special, original fragrances that are unconstrained by the conventions of mainstream scent-making. Private Blend is designed with the true fragrance connoisseur in mind.” Ok? $225 at Nordstrom or Neiman Marcus…
New fragrances are released each day…and I’ll never be able to keep up with the perfumed deluge. I have an uncomplicated method of deciding what I’ll review: I review fragrances I love; I review fragrances I despise (these scents are much more fun to write about than “average” and “ho-hum” scents); I review “hot” fragrances that are expected to attract lots of attention and sell well; and finally, I sometimes review what Robin here at Now Smell This tells me to review — “sometimes” because Robin is in no way, shape or form a Simon(e) Legree-type person! The fragrances I’m reviewing today merge in the Robin-“hot” nexus. I’m not going to torture myself (and use three weeks of my NST space) to review these scents separately; today, and in the future, I’ll kill three birds with one stone in a “trio” review.
Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme is described by Gucci as “a modern chypre” and it contains bergamot, cypress, violet, tobacco, jasmine, patchouli, amber and elemi. Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme starts with that tired-and-true combo of bergamot and cypress, then there’s a sharp shot of violet (leaf?) and some resinous-citrus-y elemi. Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme ends with crystalline musk and amber and if you strain your nostrils you’ll detect some tobacco. This “modern” chypre is pretty dull to my nose…
Actor James Franco for Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme. The music: Róisín Murphy doing a cover of Bryan Ferry's Slave To Love. Update: and here is a link to the "behind the scenes" video.
Gucci has launched Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme, the masculine counterpart to last year's Gucci by Gucci fragrance for women.
Like the women's version, Gucci by Gucci Pour Homme is a modern chypre; the notes include bergamot, cypress, violet, tobacco, jasmine, patchouli, amber and elemi…
French actress Audrey Tautou (shown) is rumored to be the new face of Chanel no. 5. Tautou is also slated to play designer Coco Chanel in an upcoming biopic. (via wwd) Opinions? An improvement over actress Nicole Kidman, who signed with Chanel back in 2003? If you never saw Kidman’s commercial, watch it at YouTube; if you already saw it, check out the spoof…