Coming from Marc Jacobs in 2010, a new macaroon-inspired limited edition Splash collection, including Apple, Pomegranate and Biscotti:
Apple Splash is by perfumer Yann Vasnier; notes include apple, lemon, grapefruit, rosemary, jasmine, magnolia, coriander and cardamom…
The Six Scents Fragrance Initiative will launch Six Scents Series Two next month. As was the case with Series One, the project will team six designers with six perfumers to create a series of limited edition fragrances:
Fragrance 1: Collage ~ by 3.1 Phillip Lim in collaboration with perfumer Nathalie Gracia-Cetto…
Lola is the latest perfume from Marc Jacobs. It follows the über-pleasant, über-cheerful Daisy, and is being touted as Daisy’s “confident and slightly vampy older sister”.
I’ll start with the bottle — as was the case with Daisy, the bottle here is surely at least half the point, maybe even the whole point. Daisy’s original bottle, adorned with white “retro-cool” vinyl flowers, was cute as the dickens, and while I wasn’t so sure about Lola’s bottle when I first saw the pictures, it turns out to be cute as the dickens too. The bright vinyl flower on the cap is absurdly large, so that the 50 ml bottle (see below right) in particular looks as though it might topple over at any moment. It made me laugh out loud as soon as I saw it in person. Again as with Daisy, it’s hard to take a perfume in such a bottle too seriously…
Elizabeth Arden will launch 5th Avenue Style this fall. The new fruity floriental fragrance for women is a flanker to 1996’s 5th Avenue, and follows 2005’s After Five 5th Avenue.
5th Avenue Style was developed by perfumer Yann Vasnier; the notes include raspberry, tagette, bergamot, pink pepper, peony, peach, plum…
Two of my favorite rosewood-scented products, SABÃO PAU ROSA, Brasil (a soap) and Bois de Rose Eau de Toilette, “disappeared” about 10 years ago. I can’t remember the names of their manufacturers, but I remember their fragrances and have been searching for replacements ever since. The rosewood soaps were bright-red glycerin ovals wrapped in lime-green paper with black-and-white lettering. Bois de Rose was made in Provence and came in pale pink boxes decorated with an old-fashioned drawing of a rosewood tree.
The last time I wore Bois de Rose perfume was on a summertime New Mexico vacation with my friend Susan. I vividly remember our Bois de Rose-scented holiday adventures. After we checked into our rooms at a Taos inn, the owner, while delivering fresh towels, assumed we had switched rooms — SURELY, no man would have so many toiletry items lined up on the bathroom counter mere minutes after arrival…