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Grace by Grace Coddington ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 12 May 2016 58 Comments

Grace Coddington drawing

Way back in 2009, my friend A. and I went to see “The September Issue,” a documentary film about Vogue magazine and its influential (and infamous) editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour. If you’d grabbed me on the way out of the theater and asked me to review the film in one line, I’d have said, “Go for Anna, but stay for Grace.” Grace Coddington, creative director of Vogue, was the movie’s surprise star — she impressed us with her imagination and her commitment to her work and she reminded us why we’re bewitched and inspired by fashion despite ourselves.

Coddington (now Vogue’s Creative Director at Large) has just collaborated with Comme des Garçons on a fragrance called Grace by Grace Coddington. This scent was inspired by Coddington’s “love of English roses”…

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Dolce & Gabbana Dolce Rosa Excelsa ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 21 April 2016 21 Comments

Dolce & Gabbana Dolce Rosa Excelsa

Dolce & Gabbana has just launched Dolce Rosa Excelsa, a new floral fragrance for women. Dolce Rosa Excelsa is the second flanker to 2014’s Dolce by Dolce & Gabbana, following 2015’s Dolce Floral Drops. This time around, the bottle is blush pink with a deep red cap. The rose-inspired fragrance includes top notes of neroli leaves, papaya flower, white water lily and white daffodil; heart notes of Turkish rose and African Dog rose; and base notes of musk, cashmeran and sandalwood.

This happens again and again, and I never learn. Some upscale fashion brand releases a new rose fragrance, and I get my hopes up, despite the accumulated experience of the past decade, and then I try it and I’m disappointed…

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Friday scent of the day 4/15

Posted by Robin on 15 April 2016 474 Comments

old fashioned roses

Friday! Plus, Leonardo da Vinci’s birthday and World Art Day. Our community project for today: we’re wearing rose for What’s in a name, part 1 (“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”).

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

I’m in Une Rose by Frédéric Malle. I smell pretty much perfect.

Reminder: on 4/22 we’re doing What’s in a name, part 2 — we’ll be wearing “misnamed” fragrances…

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Elie Saab Le Parfum Rose Couture ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 11 April 2016 47 Comments

Elie Saab Le Parfum Rose Couture advert

Maybe it’s spring and its buddy “spring cleaning,” or maybe it’s my wasted state of mind from doing taxes, but I’m feeling the “get it done” attitude. Let’s skip the usual framing about rose or flankers or budding leaves or whatever and jump right into a review of Elie Saab Le Parfum Rose Couture:

The facts: Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian developed Le Parfum Rose Couture. The notes listed in its initial press materials include peony, silken petals (whatever that is), rose, vanilla, jasmine, sandalwood and patchouli…

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Annick Goutal Rose Pompon ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 18 February 2016 30 Comments

ag-rp-rs

Over the past two weeks I’ve immersed myself in the ten-fragrance Derek Lam 10 Crosby collection, so this week I’m treating myself to a springtime rose fragrance by one of my favorite niche houses — to cleanse my palate, if you will. Annick Goutal‘s new Rose Pompon was developed by Camille Goutal with perfumer Philippine Courtière, and is designed to evoke a “young Parisian woman” who “exudes joie de vivre.” Its notes include Bulgarian rose, taïf rose, peony, black currant, raspberry, pink pepper, cedar, patchouli and white musk.

I like Rose Pompon, although it doesn’t feel like much of a rose perfume on my skin…

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