Issey Miyake has launched L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme Intense, a new fragrance for men:
Water continues to change its course and gain power with L’Eau d’Issey Pour Homme INTENSE, a new fragrance that is both captivating and invigorating…
Yves Saint Laurent Nu perfume review
Has anyone else noticed the explosion of incense fragrances over the past decade? In past years, incense seemed to play a backstage role. Sure, the old classics Creed Angélique Encens, Chanel No. 22, and Lanvin Scandal all have incense, but a trip to the perfume counter these days gives you the choice of at least a dozen fragrances featuring incense front and center, from the Comme de Garçons incense series to L’Artisan Passage d’Enfer and Dzongka to Etro Messe de Minuit to incense “soliflores”, if you can call them that, from Lorenzo Villoresi, Crazylibellule and the Poppies and others. One incense-based fragrance that stands apart from the crowd is Yves Saint Laurent Nu…
Jean Paul Gaultier Classique ~ perfume review
Jean Paul Gaultier, long known as the enfant terrible of French fashion for his irreverent approach to design — “I like to show that there is no frontier between good taste and bad taste”, he told The Independent last year — launched his first fragrance in 1993. Originally known as Jean Paul Gaultier, it was later renamed Classique to distinguish it from the scents that followed. Classique was developed by perfumer Jacques Cavallier, and the notes for the musky floriental include bergamot, orange blossom, rose, mandarin, aniseed, carnation, orchid, iris, ylang ylang, ginger, vanilla, wood, amber and musk.
Gaultier was already a household name by the time Classique launched, having gained considerable media attention for the costumes he designed for Madonna’s 1990 Blonde Ambition tour (including the “lethal conical bra designed to damage a retina at 10 paces“). It was not to be expected that his debut scent would be dull, and Gaultier’s inspirations sounded appropriately zany…
Lancaster Aquasenses & Stella McCartney Stella In Two: new fragrances
Lancaster has launched Aquasenses, a “skincare fragrance” created by perfumer Emilie Copperman. The fragrance contains a complex to neutralize free radicals and prevent premature skin aging. Notes include bamboo, lemon, peony, pear, mimosa, freesia, cardamom, cedar, woods and white musk. Aquasenses is available now in Germany and a few other European countries. (via cosmoty.de & levif.be)
Stella McCartney will launch Stella In Two in August…
He Says/She Says: Yves Saint Laurent M7
Today Marlen and I are debating the merits of M7, the fragrance launched by Yves Saint Laurent in 2002. It was the line’s seventh fragrance for men, and the first under the creative direction of designer Tom Ford. M7 was created by perfumers Jacques Cavallier and Alberto Morillas, and includes notes of agarwood, Haitian vetiver, bergamot, mandarin, rosemary, amber and musk.
He says: I first tested M7 on a warm spring day in Kyoto and immediately thought, “Well this isn’t the best time of year to launch this.” The scent was heavy and rich, masculine and earthy. The most prominent feature was the centerpiece of vetiver…