Hermès will launch L’Ambre des Merveilles in September. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 2004’s Eau des Merveilles, and follows Elixir des Merveilles (2006) and Eau Claire des Merveilles (2010)…
Top 10 Summer Fragrances 2012
I am a summer person. My favorite thing about spring is that it’s almost summer, and my favorite thing about fall is that sometimes, the summer days linger on longer than expected. I have nothing good at all to say about winter. But we take turns writing the seasonal Top 10 posts for Now Smell This, and somehow it has worked out that I’ve only done the summer list twice, in 2005 and 2007. Either one of those lists1 would take me happily through a summer even now, all these years later, and truth be told, summer is when I wear the least perfume anyway.2 Many days, a light layer of scented lotion is enough fragrance for me, and there are many more days when (horrors!) I wear no fragrance at all.
For this year’s list, I’ve avoided repeats by emphasizing post-2007 fragrances. Most, but not all, of my choices are unisex, and I’ve included niche and mainstream and indie, cheap and not so cheap…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2012, part 11
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From Illamasqua, a limited edition Parfum version of their Freak fragrance: “British beauty brand Illamasqua is launching the limited edition Freak Extrait De Parfum today. Presented in a gold bottle, the fragrance contains top notes of black davana, opium flower and belladonna, heart notes of poison hemlock, datura and queen of the night blossom, while the basenotes include frankincense, oud and myrrh.” £75 for 75 ml Extrait De Parfum…
Hermes Voyage d’Hermes Parfum ~ new fragrance
Hermès will launch a new Eau de Parfum version of their 2010 unisex fragrance, Voyage d’Hermès, in March…
Hermes Eau des Merveilles Au Bal des Etoiles ~ new fragrance
Hermès will launch Eau des Merveilles Au Bal des Etoiles in late February. The new fragrance [oops — as I began to suspect by the time we were done commenting on the day this posted, this is a collector bottle, not a new flanker! sorry for the confusion] for women is a flanker to 2004’s Eau des Merveilles, and follows Elixir des Merveilles (2006) and Eau Claire des Merveilles (2010)…