Maison Martin Margiela will launch a trio of fragrances for their Replica capsule line in June, although they are not expected to reach the US until next year. Replica Flower Market, Beach Walk and Funfair Evening are meant to “immediately to evoke a recollection”…
Perfumer Jacques Cavallier talks about the new L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme Sport by Issey Miyake. About 3 minutes.
Italian niche line Eau d’Italie will launch Un Bateau Pour Capri, a powdery fresh floral fragrance inspired by the famous guests — Grace Kelly, Liz Taylor and Jackie Kennedy — of the owner’s Positano hotel, Le Sirenuse…
British designer Stella McCartney can hardly be accused of flooding the (perfume) market with product. Her first pillar fragrance, Stella, launched in 2003. She has followed up with a series of variations and flankers, but has not done another pillar scent until this year. The new one is L.I.L.Y, reportedly named for her father Paul McCartney’s nickname for her mother — LILY, for Linda I Love You. The name also refers to the scent’s lily of the valley note; according to McCartney…
I love lily of the valley; I find it to be breathtakingly beautiful. It’s also a very innocent looking flower, with a real freshness to it. I love that it blooms only fleetingly, in Spring, and that it grows in the shade, not in direct sunlight. It is fragile and innocent and delicate, yet it also has this sharp green leaf contrast. How to capture all that in a fragrance was a real challenge […] I know it’s not particularly contemporary, and I wanted to modernise it.1
And modernize it she has…
Issey Miyake will launch L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme Sport in March 2012. The new fragrance for men is the latest flanker to 1994’s L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme, and hopes to evoke fresh air, sea and wind…