Perfumer Neil Morris rates some of the recent celebrity fragrance releases in The Boston Herald. On Baby Phat Golden Goddess:
I like it the best out of all of them. It’s pleasant and fun for young women 18 to 35. I like it because it’s well-blended, it’s round and it has really clean edges. Nothing jumps out at you…
The film version of Patrick Suskind's Perfume opens today in Germany. See early reviews in This Is London and DW-World. It will open in the US in December.
Update: more reviews, in The Guardian and SpiegelOnline (link no longer active).
Thierry Mugler will launch a limited edition set of fragrances in conjunction with the upcoming film version of Patrick Suskind's Perfume. Le Parfum...
...comprises a box of 14 olfactive components (7.5ml phials) together with a 15ml bottle of a scent called Aura. This is to be used as the base scent to which the consumer can add the various components. Mugler worked with IFF [International Flavors & Fragrances] to create the set.
Look for Le Parfum in September; 1300 sets will be sold at €500 each. (via cosmeticsint)
The movie version of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer now has its own website, complete with a picture gallery, links to the trailer, and a synopsis of the story. Per Horror Channel, where I found the link, the movie is to debut on December 8.
Will we get a tie-in perfume, as we did with Memoirs of a Geisha?
Earlier this year I linked to a brief trailer of the movie version of Patrick Suskind's Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, directed by Tom Tykwer and starring Dustin Hoffman, Ben Wishaw, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Alan Rickman. Here is a longer trailer, in German, and perhaps even creepier than the first despite the fact that I don't understand a single word. According to Cinematical, where I found the link, it is due for release in Germany in September; the US in December.
More reading: see Marcello's review of the Perfume novel. Note: image via rottentomatoes.
Update: see Marcello's review of the Perfume movie.