Tennis star Rafael Nadal will be the face of the upcoming fragrance Lanvin L’Homme Sport, to launch next year. (via wwd, image via vamosbrigade)
Gwen Stefani introduced her Harajuku Lovers range to beauty editors with a trip to Tokyo’s Harajuku District. Read more at Special Events.
The Beckhams launched their latest fragrances, Beckham Signature, in New York recently….
Lanvin will launch Jeanne Lanvin, a new fruity gourmand fragrance for women, this coming July in France. It will not come to the US until September, at which time it will be exclusive to Saks.
Jeanne Lanvin was developed by perfumer Anne Flipo, who noted that she was “aiming for something simple yet sophisticated—impertinent and young—mirroring the modern woman Jeanne Lanvin was”. The Jeanne Lanvin perfume features notes of blackberry, pear, citron, raspberry, white freesia, peony, musk, sandalwood and amber…
“Hello,” I said as I stood up from my folding metal chair in the church basement. “My name is Angela, and I’m a cranky perfumista.” It was the weekly meeting of Cranky Perfumistas Anonymous, and around me sat a dozen or so men and women sharing my predicament: they were recovering perfume snobs. The group leader thanked me and then said, “Is there anything you’d like to share today?”
“Yes,” I said, “This has been a really tough week for me. You see, I have to do a review of Lanvin Rumeur 2 Rose, a limited edition Rumeur flanker.”
The group started groaning…
Under its new owner, the French label's finances at first suffered. In 2002, for example, Ms. Wang launched a new Lanvin-branded perfume. Instead of entrusting the business to a licensee, as most fashion houses do, Lanvin decided to go solo.
[…] The problem with the perfume launch was that Lanvin didn't have the know-how or a distribution network, so it ended up with millions of euros worth of unsold perfume bottles between 2002 and 2004, according to Lanvin's 2004 financial records.
— From Fashion's New Patrons Struggle for Right Fit, a fascinating article in the Wall Street Journal…
Despite the hundreds of new fragrances released each year, I seem to spend a lot of time exploring scents first created years ago. I feel like I have so much catching up to do with perfume that I barely have time to see what's happening at my local department store. Here is a belated review of a relatively new department store perfume, probably old news to many of you: Lanvin Rumeur.
Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian developed Rumeur, and it was released by Lanvin in 2006. Rumeur steals its name but not its olfactory inspiration from the original Lanvin Rumeur first released in 1934. The new Rumeur's notes include magnolia, white roses, jasmine sambac, seringa, orange blossom, lily of the valley, patchouli, musks, and ambroxan. A Women's Wear Daily article quotes a Lanvin representative saying, “It's not a young scent; it's for women from 30 years old to 80” (8/25/2006)…