Kenzo’s yearly Ryoko collection (travel-sized “fragrance pebbles”), done up in a high-gloss finish for 2009. This year’s fragrances include Flower by Kenzo, Kenzo Amour and L’Eau Par Kenzo for women, L’Eau Par Kenzo Pour Homme and Kenzo Homme for men. $29 each for 20 ml at Kenzo USA…
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.
For the 2008 holiday season and the 180th anniversary of Guerlain, the brand presents Shalimar, L'Instant Magic and Insolence in “the legendary bottle of L'Heure Bleue”, with “the unmistakable round label of anther [sic] legendary scent, Mitsouko, to symbolise the timeless refinement of the House of Guerlain”…
So. I have a series of little plastic drawer thingies (you can see a picture here if you scroll down) where I store fragrance samples that are waiting to be tried. Once I take a sample out of its drawer, it hangs around on my desk until I’ve given it a few tries. Then I have a large plastic cart with drawers (you can see a picture here) that holds fragrance samples I’ve already tried but want to keep. Every so often I try something a few times and still can’t make up my mind about it either way. I don’t give up easy; some of my very favorite perfumes were not love at first sight. So those samples go into what I think of as “the purgatory basket”, and there they languish, sometimes for weeks, sometimes for months, yes, sometimes for years.
Recently the purgatory basket started to overflow. I thought about getting a bigger basket — that tells you most of what you need to know about my organizational style — but decided last week to make a concerted effort to clear an inch or so off the top. Most of the samples ended up in the “give away” box, a few got stored away in the “to keep” drawers, but a few sternly resisted categorization for the umpteenth time…
Leiber, the luxury goods house of designer Judith Leiber, will launch their debut perfume this September. The brand's signature scent for women will be called simply Leiber:
The fragrance, which was blended by Mane perfumer Karine Dubreuil, features top notes of bergamot, mandarin leaf, pineapple and osmanthus; a heart of pimento, rose absolu, rose essence, jasmine absolu, mimosa absolu, gardenia and cyclamen…