Kenzo has launched Winter Flowers, a limited edition flanker to their popular Flower by Kenzo fragrance (introduced in 2000).
During the heart of winter, when nature slumbers, delicate winter flowers startle the quiet scenery with their early blooms. Three precious winter flowers were picked to create Kenzo's new bouquet—a floral and powdery eau de parfum. This gently surprising scent opens with honey-hinted mimosa…
Here they come: a slew of late summer and early fall men’s mainstream and designer fragrance launches. I have weeks’ worth of reviewing ahead of me, and everyone who reads this blog regularly knows the chances are slim that one of these fragrances — designed to appeal to a wide audience, everyone from collegiate Lotharios to middle-aged chiropractors — will strike a new chord (or accord) and please me (let alone thrill me). Kenzo Power was the first to arrive at my doorstep and if any of you watched the Olympics, you know “performing” first has its pitfalls — the first performer does not want to be average, he wants to astound and dominate the field.
Kenzo Power, “A Flower for Men,” was created by perfumer Olivier Polge and is described in Kenzo’s PR materials as “an imaginary flower in the heart of a woody amber-y fragrance”. Kenzo Power contains bergamot, coriander, cardamom, an abstract floral note (created using jasmine, rose and freesia), tolu balsam, cedar wood and labdanum.
I put on cologne first thing in the morning before getting dressed, so I never spray fragrances directly onto my clothes; however, when I first wore Kenzo Power, I applied it mid-day, while fully dressed, and the perfume got on my collar and sleeves…
Kenzo has launched Les Eaux de Fleur, a trio of limited edition floral fragrances for women:
Eau De Fleur de Soie (shown) ~ “the silk flower”, a floral with fruity accents; developed by perfumer Jean Jacques…
Kenzo’s latest is Vintage Edition, or more properly, ☮ by Kenzo Vintage Edition (that’s a peace symbol, for those of you who don’t have a browser capable of rendering one). It’s a unisex fragrance, launched in honor of Kenzo’s 20th anniversary as a perfume house:
The 1970’s witnessed the arrival of Kenzo Takada on the Parisian fashion scene. To celebrate this era of exploration, life, and daring creativity, Kenzo reinvents the scent of the seventies with a limited edition unisex fragrance that captures the essence of freedom. (via kenzousa)
The essence of freedom — who doesn’t need some of that? Vintage Edition was developed by perfumer Annick Menardo (who was also responsible for the 1999 limited edition Kenzo Time for Peace for Him), and features notes of musk, heliotrope, cedar, tonka bean, vanilla and mandarin…
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.
At Colette in Paris, Viktor & Rolf’s Flowerbomb for Women (shown above left) and Antidote for Men in limited edition engraved and numbered bottles created for this summer’s retrospective at the Barbican Art Gallery in London…