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3 perfumes: Le Labo Another 13, Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia, Lust by Gorilla Perfume

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Three perfumes — Le Labo Another 13, Jo Malone English Pear & Freesia and Lust by Gorilla Perfume at Lush — in search of a theme. Sorry folks, we have no theme.

Le Labo Another 13

Le Labo Another 13

Le Labo’s new Another 13, their limited edition fragrance with AnOther magazine, is one of several recent ambrox-heavy1 scents. Unlike Juliette Has A Gun’s Not A Perfume, this one is actually a perfume, that is, someone (in this case, perfumer Nathalie Lorson) took the time to mix the ambrox with other notes (in this case, apple, pear, green citrus and ambrette).

Anyone remember Escentric 02 by Escentric Molecules? That was another ambrox vehicle, and despite the completely different notes (it featured vetiver, muscone, orris, elderflower extract and hedione), they’re not as different as they sound. Maybe anything with lots of ambrox is going to end up smelling mostly like ambrox? Mind you, they’re far from identical…

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Gorilla Perfume at Lush Imogen Rose and B Scent ~ fragrance review

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Gorilla Perfume at Lush Imogen RoseGorilla Perfume at Lush B Scent

If you’re a long-time Lush customer, you’ll recognize some familiar “faces” in the Gorilla Perfume at Lush product line: this Lush-owned company brings together a few fragrances that have been in and out of rotation at Lush, several fragrances originally offered by B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful (the now-defunct cosmetics-and-fragrance offshoot of Lush), and a generous handful of new scent creations, all of them unconventional fragrances blended from largely natural ingredients. When I visited the traveling “fragrance gallery” staged by Gorilla Perfume and began to familiarize myself with the complete line of scents, my usual instincts drew me towards two rose-based compositions…

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Gorilla Perfume Gallery Exhibit in New York City

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Gorilla Perfumes Gallery exhibit: exterior and perfume display

Gorilla Perfume, the new fragrance division of Lush, has been promoting its line of scents with a traveling “fragrance gallery.” This exhibit is promoted by Gorilla Perfume as “a winding olfactory maze of wonderment,” and it was recently installed in New York City for three days of sensory delights.

The gallery was set up within a converted brick townhouse building on a cobblestoned street in SoHo, and it occupied three levels of rooms and corridors. A printed map guided visitors through the building, where the Gorilla team had utilized nine atmospheric stonewalled chambers to bring its various scents alive through decorations, lighting, and sound effects (not to mention a refreshment or two)…

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Gorilla Perfume at Lush The Smell of Freedom, Imogen Rose, Orange Blossom, Lust & The Smell of Weather Turning ~ new fragrances

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Gorilla Perfumes Smell of Freedom

Gorilla Perfume at Lush, a new label introduced earlier this year with Tuca Tuca, has introduced five new fragrances, and a number of older Lush perfumes have now been folded into the Gorilla Perfume line. All of the fragrances were created by Mark Constantine, founder of Lush, and/or his son, Simon.

Older Lush perfumes now under the Gorilla Perfume name include Ginger, Flower Market, Icon, Vanillary and Karma. Eleven perfumes from the defunct B Never Too Busy line are also included in the new effort: Dirty, Ladyboy, 1000 Kisses Deep, Dear John, Cocktail, Breath of God, Inhale & Exhale, B Scent, Superworld Unknown and Love.

The five new fragrances are The Smell of Freedom, Imogen Rose, Orange Blossom, Lust and The Smell of Weather Turning…

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