Givenchy has launched Gentlemen Only Eau de Toilette Fraîche, a new flanker to 2013’s Gentlemen Only fragrance…
Vero Profumo Naja ~ new fragrance
Swiss niche line Vero Profumo celebrates their 10th anniversary with Naja (cobra), a new limited edition fragrance, in May…
Jo Malone Tobacco & Mandarin ~ fragrance review
Inspired by the free-spirited artists of the legendary Bloomsbury group—writers, philosophers and intellectuals, most notable among them Virginia Woolf—this collection of scents captures the intoxicating essence of an unconventional life in their legendary country house in the Bloomsbury area. Each bottle in the collection is hand painted. —Nordstrom
As we perfumistas know, inspirations for scents rarely translate into realistic representations: “This perfume is SO Virginia Woolf!” That’s fine…we can still enjoy the resulting perfume even if it’s not catty, depressed, inhibited, or a genius. But why can’t Nordstrom get the country house right in the PR above? The Bloomsbury area of metro London is NOT the country and the houses there associated with the Bloomsbury group are on Gordon Square. You have to travel 90 minutes outside London to see THE country house of the Bloomsbury set: Charleston farmhouse…
House of Cherry Bomb Revolution ~ new perfumes
Indie line House of Cherry Bomb has launched Revolution Perfume, comprising two limited edition fragrances for the exhibition Midnight Mass at BLAM Gallery in Brooklyn…*
Jo Malone Blue Hyacinth and Leather & Artemisia ~ fragrance reviews
Jo Malone recently launched its springtime limited edition collection, The Bloomsbury Set. Once again, the collection has an appropriately English theme. These five fragrances — Blue Hyacinth, Garden Lilies, Leather & Artemisia, Tobacco & Mandarin and Whisky & Cedarwood — were reportedly inspired by the Bloomsbury Group and artist Vanessa Bell’s Charleston House in Sussex. I say “reportedly” because that information was shared in early press releases, although the Jo Malone website now only refers vaguely to “free spirited artists” living “an unconventional life in their legendary country house.”
Samples of Jo Malone’s limited editions are hard to come by, so this review is based on visit to a Jo Malone counter and a generous application of two fragrances that particularly interested me…