Coming this month from Stetson, Stetson Fresh, a new cologne for men fronted by quarterback Tom Brady…
Gucci by Gucci ~ perfume review
In Angela’s recent article on Becoming a perfumista, she identified four stages along the road from newbie status to curating a personal collection of 300+ perfumes: strong interest, beginning perfume mania, full-blown perfume mania and connoisseurship. I’d like to add a fifth: rampant cynicism. This comes, I think, of already owning enough perfume to scent a small town for the foreseeable future, and then not only looking for more fragrances that you might conceivably love and want to own, but also trying (in vain) to keep track of all the new perfume releases and to smell as many of them as you can possibly manage.
You can tell you’ve reached stage five when almost everything you read about a new fragrance makes you either laugh out loud or roll your eyes, depending on your mood. I must have been “in a mood” the day I first read about the new Gucci by Gucci, because I remember rolling my eyes. Gucci’s Creative Director Frida Giannini was said to have “unleashed her affinity for masculine notes” — yeah, right. I’ve heard that nonsense before. And “modern chypre” gets an eye roll from me no matter what mood I’m in. The commercial didn’t help — I’m a David Lynch fan, but his spot for Gucci by Gucci struck me as silly…
Seemed like the real thing…
The new commercial for Gucci by Gucci, which opened Gucci's recent Spring & Summer collection at Milan's fashion week. It was directed by David Lynch and features Blondie's Heart of Glass. According to Frida Giannini, Gucci's Creative Director, "I wanted our first television advertising campaign to have that whimsical touch from a visionary film director such as David Lynch. I wanted him to capture the total essence of Gucci - and I'm thrilled with the result". (via vogue.co.uk)
Gucci by Gucci ~ new fragrance
Gucci’s latest fragrance for women, Gucci by Gucci, will launch this coming October. It will be the first major feminine launch under Gucci Creative Director Frida Giannini, who reportedly “unleashed her affinity for masculine notes” with the modern chypre fragrance.
The notes include guava, raspberry, pear…
Gucci Pour Homme II ~ fragrance review
Like Gucci Pour Homme (2003), the newly released Gucci Pour Homme II (created by perfumer Karine Dubreuil) is a subtle fragrance. I saw Pour Homme II’s packaging long before I knew anything about the scent and I worried that the cologne’s blue tint was a reference to sea and sky, to ‘water’ and ‘air’ accords that are so over-used these days in men’s fragrances. Before smelling the fragrance, I read the list of Pour Homme II’s ingredients (bergamot, violet leaves, cinnamon, pimento, black tea, myrrh, tobacco leaves, white musk, and olive wood) and though no marine or ozone notes were mentioned, I was still “concerned” because the recipe for a bland men’s department store-designer fragrance was there in its structure: Top: bergamot, Middle: cinnamon-pimento, Base: musk/wood.
Gucci Pour Homme II opens with refreshing violet leaf and bergamot notes…