Covet Pure Bloom is the first flanker to Sarah Jessica Parker's Covet fragrance. Covet Pure Bloom is a “bright, feminine floral indulgence, a new scent that's pure paradise and a rare sensuality”:
Bored with roses or mixed bouquets, Parker picked the royal Indonesian pikake as the floral note at the heart of her new perfume.
The notes feature purple plum, coconut water, tuberose, royal Indonesian pikake and amber creamy musks…
Actress Naomi Watts is the new face of Thierry Mugler Angel:
Naomi Watts was the inspired choice for Thierry Mugler, over and above her beauty and her star image. Displaying a modern touch, the actress projects a personality that blends sensuality, voluptuousness and evanescence to evoke the many facets of Angel. A blond fragility, a natural tenderness, an emotional seductiveness…
Long before his appointment as the world's first professional perfume critic, Chandler Burr had made a name for himself as a perfume journalist with a bit of an edge. His excellent New Yorker article on the creation of Hermès Un Jardin sur le Nil, which gave us a glimpse behind the scenes of this secretive industry, was followed by his regular contributions for The New York Times on the current state of perfumery, in which he wrote passionately about his aversion against the mystification, the anachronistic traditions, and the unspoken rules in the perfume trade. The vastness of his contacts is the envy of most perfume bloggers, and sometimes I wonder if he made more enemies than friends in the past years — which I mean as a compliment, of course. Hardly surprising then, that his latest book was so highly anticipated by many, including me.
If scientific controversy was a central theme in The Emperor of Scent, The Perfect Scent takes a swing at the maladies of the perfume industry. Burr uncovers its deeper mechanisms, from the dilemmas faced by manufacturers who are forced to accept assignments without contracts, to the pointless secrecy in which perfume formulae are still enveloped…
"I really like vanilla perfumes -- Covet has that vibe -- but couldn't wear them when I was engaged," she says. "I just broke up with my fiance. He didn't like me wearing Angel by Thierry Mugler, so I may go back to that." She touches up her pink lipstick in the mirror. "He was so controlling."
"This smells like ... you know when you work out all day and have that really bad scent? Not exactly that, but maybe something more pungent."
— Suzanne on Sarah Jessica Parker Covet and Joe on Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male, respectively, from What It Takes To Drive Them Wild, an article in The National Post in which reporters plant themselves in the rest rooms of a Toronto nightclub and ask random passersby to test perfumes.
When I first came across Etat Libre D’Orange, I assumed on the basis of past experience that this niche perfumery firm had all the hallmarks of the classic snob-value ripoff: great names and high concept, crap fragrances. But I’m co-authoring a perfume guide, so I gave them a try.
— Luca Turin tries (and likes!) the Etat Libre d'Orange line. Read the rest at NZZ Folio.
Not to sound treacly, but it would be how my son's bedroom smells when you walk in.
(The scent is) clean, and it's mixed with their sweat while they're sleeping and the cotton of their blankets and the moisture that's right underneath their hair.
— Sarah Jessica Parker on "the most comforting smell she would want to bottle and carry around with her", via USA Today.