Three more limited editions for 2008:
From Donna Karan, this year's summer versions of the DKNY Delicious fragrances. Shown is Be Delicious Charmingly Delicious, in which “an exclusive American apple note is added, enhanced with energetic solar freshness and dewy watery notes to create a scent full of summer brightness and fresh energy”. Red Delicious Charmingly Delicious “is a summer cocktail of sumptuous red fruits, mouth-watering apple, and sexy vanilla”…
Carolina Herrera has launched the 2008 versions of her limited edition 212 Splash fragrances for summer. The scents are lighter variations on the original 212 fragrances and were “inspired by the fast pace of the city of New York”. The outer packaging, like last year’s, is designed to evoke soda cans…
Jean Paul Gaultier has launched this year's summer versions of Classique (100 ml alcohol-free Eau de Toilette) and Le Mâle (125 ml Body Spray).
The 2008 bottle designs are inspired by Africa, and the scents are “infused with the transcendent sun and the heady rhythms of an African ritual”…
Two more summer limited edition scents…
From Elizabeth Arden, a summer version of last year's Mediterranean fragrance. Mediterranean Breeze is “the scent of a warm breeze infused with wild blossoms and the gentle spray of the ocean”, and comes in 50 ($47.50) or 100 ml ($57.50) Eau de Parfum spray. Available at dillards…
Estee Lauder launched Azuree Soleil in 2006 as a limited edition body oil. It was part of the “Tom Ford Estee Lauder Collection” or somesuch, and the body oil returned in the summer of 2007, along with a new Azuree Soleil Eau Fraiche Skinscent formula. As I understand it, now that Tom Ford's own brand (under the Estee Lauder umbrella) is off and running, we won't be seeing any more joint Tom Ford-Estee Lauder products, so Azuree Soleil is kaput (as is Youth Dew Amber Nude).
Fans of Azuree Soleil needn't worry; Estee Lauder's new Bronze Goddess is very nearly the same thing, in fact, only the fragrance-obsessed will notice (or care about) the difference. They're both tropical beach-y scents, and the Azuree Soleil I thought of as not exactly suntan oil-ish, but as what suntan oil ought to smell like…