More on this year's version of Cherry Blossom by Guerlain: Lovely Cherry Blossom Gold Sparkles is a limited edition Eau de Toilette geared to the Asian market. The fragrance has notes of bergamot peel, green tea, lilac, jasmine, red fruits, powder notes, and, presumably, cherry blossom.
Beauty salon & spa line Jacques Dessange has released their first fragrance, L'Eau de Parfum Dessange, with lemon blossom, raspberry, apricot, nectarine, rose de mai, cyclamen, elemi, pink peppercorns, white musk, cedar, cypress and sandalwood. (both above via beaute-conseils)
Boucheron will launch Editions Bleues, summer limited edition versions of Boucheron Eau Légère for women, with mandarin, bergamot, water hyacinth, musk and vanilla; and Boucheron pour homme Eau de Toilette Fraîcheur, with water jasmine, verbena, bergamot, patchouli, and cedar. (via cosmoty.de)
You know what's odd? Cherry blossoms have no scent. You can walk among them for miles in April in DC and you smell nothing. So it's always interesting to me what sort of things go into “cherry blossom” colognes. It's a sort of scent portrait, I suppose. Something meant to remind you of the way they look, perhaps. A very romantic idea, but there is no scent of cherry blossom. More's the pity.
LOL — cherry blossoms *ought* to have a scent, so I say Go Guerlain on that issue. Funny thing is, I grew up in DC and attended the Cherry Blossom Festival every year, and have no memory on the scent issue either way.
Oh, when I was in France, Jacques Dessange was just a hairdresser. LOL! I've really lost touch with what's happening there.
Seconding (thirding?) the cherry blossom comment. I live in DC and walk among them every spring, admiring their beauty. They do have a scent, but it is very, very faint, and almost green rather than floral. The bees go crazy for them, though, what are they getting that I'm not?!
Is it just me or do the names of scents keep getting longer and longer.
“What are you wearing?”
“Oh, you like it? Why it's Lovely Cherry Blossom Gold Sparkles by Guerlain”
Oy.
LOL — I think he is still “just a hairdresser”, only now he is a hairdresser with tons of salons, including quite a few in the US.
Have they bloomed yet this year? I can't remember when they usually do, except that it was very early in the year.
LOL — quite so! It is a ridiculous name to have to repeat. Perhaps it sounds better however it is translated into Japanese, which is the primary market, I think.
Ordinarily they bloom in late March or early April (generally not when the Festival is, although they try to time it accordingly!) This winter we have had such warm, flukey weather though that the forsythia is already blooming and other buds are swelling alarmingly. There is, in fact, a single cherry blossom tree already blooming in the neighborhood, in a warm pocket next to someone's house. These plants better rein it in — we'll probably have one of those freak 3-foot snows any week now…
Wow, M, we have absolutely nothing blooming here. And yes, waiting for that snowstorm…
I know that some kinds of cheery blossums called nioizakura or Oshimazakura ,means scented cherryblossums or big island cherryblossums , have scents.
Their dried leaves were used for Japanese confectionary called sakura-mochi.
So, Many of Japanese,inculde me,doesn`t matter this fragrance called cherryblossums.
Thanks for commenting. I wonder if those are the blossoms they use to make Sakura tea…