New at lusciouscargo: Maître Tailleurs L'Eau du Tailleur, created by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier; and i Profumi di Firenze Zenzero.
New at nordstrom: Azurée Body Oil Spray from the Tom Ford Estee Lauder Collection.
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New at lusciouscargo: Maître Tailleurs L'Eau du Tailleur, created by Maître Parfumeur et Gantier; and i Profumi di Firenze Zenzero.
New at nordstrom: Azurée Body Oil Spray from the Tom Ford Estee Lauder Collection.
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Around the world, incense is burned to commemorate people and events, to give thanks, to worship, to celebrate joyous occasions, and to purify the air. Watching the glowing incense sticks and their gentle whorls of smoke, and inhaling the luscious aromas of the heated resins and fragrant oils evokes memory, far-away places and ancient rituals. The 'art of incense' combines the ceremonial with the sensual, contemplation with languor.
Terre D'Oc, based in Provence, produces incense sticks and cones in subtle floral, spice and wood aromas…
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Martine Micallef is expected to launch Avant-Garde (shown above left) this month. The fragrance for men has notes of citrus, water sword lily, iris, cocoa, tobacco leaf, incense, tonka bean and tolu balsam. (via cosmoty.de)
Hugo Boss has launched a limited edition fragrance for men, Boss in Motion Black…
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Pure Poison was launched by Christian Dior in 2004, 6 years after Hypnotic Poison and nearly 20 years after the original Poison fragrance. It was created by perfumers Carlos Benaïm, Dominique Ropion and Olivier Polge, and has notes of jasmine, sweet orange, bergamot, mandarin, orange blossom, gardenia, sandalwood, musk and white amber.
Pure Poison attempts to appeal to modern sensibilities (and modern tastes in fragrance) while hanging on to the original conceit of Poison as the venom to catch your man:
Pure Poison — though very different from the original Poison, which launched in 1985 — is a modern spin on the same concept. It is designed to appeal to young women of the 21st century who are passionate, down to earth and able to turn their wildest dreams into reality, but lack the selfish front that characterised the 1980s. (via Cosmetics International; 7/9/2004)
It is rather a stretch conceptually: one might ask whether a down to earth, emotionally generous woman needs or wants a fragrance called Poison at all. For that matter, the fragrance itself cannot hope to live up to its name, for pure it might be, but there is nothing even remotely venomous about it…
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Students at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, are working with perfumers at International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) to create fragranced clothing:
The technology works by binding millions of tiny microcapsules on to a fabric, which set off a sweet-smelling scent with friction and movement.
The fragrance is released gradually and the perfume lasts for 15 to 20 washes…