Skincare and spa line Caudalie will launch Parfum Divin, a fragrance inspired by their Huile Divine body oil, next month. The brand already produces an Eau Fraîche collection, including the newest, Figue de Vigne…
Bvlgari Aqva Amara ~ fragrance review
Bvlgari Parfums managing director Valeria Manini said Bvlgari’s new men’s fragrance, Aqva Amara,1 a flanker to 2005’s Aqva Pour Homme, was:
…part of a larger strategy to promote the best-selling Aqva and Omnia lines as high-end creations “developed for a larger audience…. We are working very hard to try to elevate what are considered the ‘entry’ product lines. There are two possible approaches here: either you treat the fragrance as a big commercial blockbuster, or you say, no, we want to treat this like a very precious object.”2
The trouble with this strategy, when it comes to the Aqva line at least, is that the perfumes don’t smell “high-end.” Original Aqva Pour Homme has its moments, but it smells more like a blockbuster wannabe than an expensive niche creation…
Bvlgari Aqva Amara ~ new fragrance
Bvlgari will launch Aqva Amara, a new fragrance for men. Aqva Amara is a flanker to 2005’s Aqva Pour Homme, and follows recent flankers Aqva Pour Homme Toniq and Aqva Pour Homme Marine Toniq (2011)…
Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse & Caudalie Divine Oil ~ scented body product reviews
After I wrote my review of i Profumi di Firenze Frangipane e Cocco last week, I started craving a fragrance that actually smelled like frangipani. I couldn’t find anything fitting that description in my sample drawer, and then I remembered the sample packets of Nuxe Huile Prodigieuse that I had tucked into the bathroom cupboard a month or two ago. Voilà! Just the kind of thing I’d had in mind, even if it came in the form of a body product.
Nuxe is celebrating Huile Prodigieuse’s twentieth anniversary this year with a limited edition bottle and a bit of fanfare over its “multi-usage dry oil.” This product can be used to moisturize the body, hair and face; it’s a blend of “six precious oils” (borage, St. John’s wort, sweet almond, camellia, hazelnut and macadamia) as well as other botanical extracts and synthetic ingredients. To my nose, and my imagination, Huile Prodigieuse has a “fancy French suntan oil” smell: a breath of neroli, a drizzle of coconut milk, a shimmer of musk. And, yes, it features a creamy note of frangipane (or tiare) flower petals…
Closer by Halle Berry ~ new fragrance
Halle Berry will launch Closer by Halle Berry in September. Closer will be Berry’s fifth fragrance release, and the woody floral reportedly combines fresh notes with a classic masculine fougère accord…