Indie perfumer Sali Oguri has relaunched her Pink Manhattan fragrance:
My approach to perfume composition mirrors my approach to music making. It's a combination of meticulously chosen notes built with equal parts control and abandon. Pink Manhattan is my homage to this great city I love and am continually inspired by.
Sali Oguri Pink Manhattan is available for a limited time in 10 ml perfume oil for $95, and can be ordered at Oguri's website. (via salioguri)
Indie perfumer Sali Oguri has launched a followup to her Pink Manhattan fragrance, Unreleased Mix a.k.a. Persephone Perfume Oil. As previously reported, the fragrance includes notes of hyacinth, cassis, pomegranate, Mysore sandalwood, blackberry, magnolia, amber and dark chocolate…
Yves Rocher’s Hoggar fragrance for men, launched last year in France, is now available at US stores.
The fragrance was created by perfumer Marie-Aude Couture and is described as an “ultra-masculine, oriental woody scent, evocative of desert dunes and winds…” Notes include bergamot, tobacco, tonka bean…
Sali Oguri moved to New York from Japan at age 5, and has been singing professionally since she was 16 years old. For 10 years, she was the on-camera host for the television series “New Yorkers” on NHK Japan network, and she also hosted the radio show “Switch On New York” for 2 years. You can read a more detailed biography on her website.
Those of you who frequent the fragrance forum at MakeupAlley know Sali as songscent, and she also posts on the Perfume Addicts board as perfsong1. Sali has recently released her first indie solo CD and perfume, Pink Manhattan: Sensorium of Song & Scent. Whatever limited qualifications I have to write about perfume certainly don’t extend to music, so I will say only that Sali has a lovely voice, and I really enjoyed listening to her CD.
Pink Manhattan Purrfume has notes of peach, pear, plum blossom, pink hibiscus, calla lily, gardenia, French vanilla, and musk. It starts with a juicy peach note, and happily, it is neither the heavy, canned peach that I find in some oils, nor the plastic, fruit roll-up variety. It just smells like a nice, fresh peach…