You've about 2 more weeks to come up with a Mother's Day present…
More sparkle from Bond no. 9: the Swarovski Stars Bon Bons, four 6 ml purse sprays in their Bryant Park, Bleecker Street, Nuits de Noho and Eau de New York fragrances. $700 at Bond no. 9…
Two limited edition collector bottles for fall, both based on purple velvet:
First, Stella McCartney’s Stella Eau de Parfum “gets dressed in a luxurious plum-colored rubber velvet casing” for the Stella Velvet Edition. I was really hoping this was an all new fragrance (doesn’t a velvety version of Stella sound nice?) but alas, it is just the same juice in a pretty bottle…
Time is running out — if you still need to buy a present for Mother’s Day, get cracking! A few last suggestions:
In case Mom has been extra-extra good this year: Annick Goutal’s Mandragore Eau de Parfum in a 100 ml limited edition, numbered butterfly bottle, handpainted by French artist Caroline Rennequin. $250 at Saks…
Fragrance quote of the day:
You spray a perfume on in the airport duty-free and you feel as if you’re poisoning your skin, you feel like it’s choking you — you feel like it has cheap ingredients. I’m fed up with it.
That's Stella McCartney in today's column by Bethan Cole in the UK Times Online.
L'eau de Marmalade? It is coming soon…
Lancaster has launched Aquasenses, a “skincare fragrance” created by perfumer Emilie Copperman. The fragrance contains a complex to neutralize free radicals and prevent premature skin aging. Notes include bamboo, lemon, peony, pear, mimosa, freesia, cardamom, cedar, woods and white musk. Aquasenses is available now in Germany and a few other European countries. (via cosmoty.de & levif.be)
Stella McCartney will launch Stella In Two in August…