Les Parfums de Rosine has launched La Rose Légère, a new summer version of La Rose de Rosine:
Beautiful days are back and La Rose de Rosine metamorphoses in an Eau Fraîche, a more lively, light and sweet fragrance: LA ROSE LEGERE.
The top note is gently kicked by a wild strawberry and is mixing the green and grinding blackcurrant, the acidulous and fresh bergamot and the sweet neroli…
Niche line Parfums de Nicolaï launched Vanille Intense, a new addition to the Les Magnifiques collection:
Racy and incredibly natural bourbon vanilla absolu will take you miles away… An exotic tribute to the vanilla bean with a captivating rhum top note enhanced with Indonesian patchouli oil for a warm and woody dry down…
Lavanila has launched Vanilla Lavender:
Innocent & fresh. This clean and romantic blend of Spanish Lavender, Rose Absolute, Violet Leaf and warm Madagascar vanilla is created by natural perfumers who use only the finest pure essential oils. Peaceful and serene, an oasis of tranquility awaits…
My “to review” list is now so alarmingly long that I try not to look at it at all for more than a few seconds at a time. Yesterday, in despair, I decided to cross out all of the niche fragrances I wasn’t even interested in smelling again and could barely remember from the first try (scents that “fill my head with a deep, profound, Zen-like nothingness”, to quote March at Perfume Posse). All of those samples were thrown into the purgatory basket, where they may end up living out the rest of their days unless either a) I get more productive or b) the fragrance industry gets less productive.
Felanilla — and let’s not even talk about the name, ‘kay? — is one of the latest fragrances from Parfumerie Generale, and it did make an immediate impression…
When I pulled the canister of Coty Vanilla Fields cologne body spray from the shopping bag, my sister said, “That looks like it should sit on the back of the toilet.” The Vanilla Fields body spray is in a tall, thin aluminum canister that looks a lot like Renuzit air freshener. Not a promising sign.
Fortunately, Vanilla Fields, while not breaking any records for perfume innovation, still smells better than canned room spray. Coty launched Vanilla Fields in 1993, and the next year it won a Fifi award for Women’s fragrance of the Year, in the Mass Appeal category (an award no longer offered). The Vanilla Fields website describes the fragrance as a blend of mimosa, jasmine, and vanilla, and it is clearly marketed toward the earth-tone wearing suburban mom who values “fresh and pretty” over “seductive and imaginative”…