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2006 / Browsing by date: July 2006

The Fragrance Wardrobe, part one

Posted by Angela on 31 July 2006 29 Comments

Perfume collectionO.K., here’s a question: How many perfumes does a woman need?

For me, the answer certainly comes to more than one. As much as I love the idea of having a signature fragrance, I could never be faithful to just one scent, no matter how fabulous. After all, I would never want to go through life listening to just one song, or drinking just one wine, or looking at just one painting.

The Fragrance Foundation recommends that women have four perfumes: a floral, an oriental, a green, and a chypre. While this recommendation probably makes their member organizations happy by touching on most fragrance categories, I have a harder time with it. A chypre, for instance, can be herbal and zingy, like Guerlain Sous le Vent or Patou Cocktail, or lush and viscous like Rochas Femme or Cartier Baiser du Dragon. (In fact, I think I could make a fragrance wardrobe of chypres alone.) I don’t see how fragrance family alone can determine how many perfumes to have.

So, how many perfumes are enough? After a great deal of thought, I’ve determined that for me the magic number is twelve…

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J Del Pozo Halloween, Derek Jeter Driven: new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 31 July 2006 9 Comments

J Del Pozo Halloween Tropical Edition FragranceJ Del Pozo will launch Halloween Tropical Edition, its fourth limited edition fragrance celebrating the holiday. The scent, “a semi-oriental floral, includes notes of violet, lime, lily of the valley and pink pepper.” (via moodiereport)

Derek Jeter will launch a fragrance in conjunction with Avon this fall. Driven…

…is a fresh fougère…

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Bobbi Brown Beach & CB I Hate Perfume At The Beach 1966 ~ the scent of summer

Posted by Robin on 28 July 2006 16 Comments

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Bobbi Brown launched her Beach fragrance in 2002, and it has been a best seller for the brand since then. The notes include summery sand, jasmine, sea spray, dianthus dune flower, neroli petals and driftwood.

Bobbi Brown Beach isn’t a tropical sort of beach fragrance, like J Lo’s Miami Glow or Matthew Williamson’s eponymous scent; it smells like an Atlantic beach vacation (East Coast of the US, to be more exact): a bit of fresh sea air, a bit of salt water, and the very synthetic smell of sunscreen. The opening is a wee bit sharp, and rather reminiscent of some of the sunscreen sprays that have suddenly become popular at my own local pool this summer, but it settles nicely. I have seen the smell compared to Coppertone, and it does have something rather Coppertone-ish about it, but it isn’t the dead ringer for Coppertone that is At The Beach 1966…

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Tom Ford Black Orchid, Marc Jacobs Autumn Splash, Miller Harris L'Air de Rien & more

Posted by Robin on 28 July 2006 12 Comments

Tom Ford Black Orchid fragranceTom Ford will launch Black Orchid in November. For the fragrance, Ford sought out a recently introduced black orchid “with the barest hint of aubergine”:

Using headspace technology…[the] team captured the black orchid’s essence and replicated it molecularly. The fragrance, by Givaudan, has top notes of French jasmine…

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Comme des Garcons Guerilla 1 & Guerilla 2 fragrance review

Posted by Robin on 27 July 2006 4 Comments

Comme des Garcons Guerilla 1 & Guerilla 2 fragrances

Comme des Garçons has launched their latest fragrance series. Series 8* takes as its theme the Guerilla store concept, in which the company opens stores in “dead” areas of major cities, spends little or nothing on decorating, and “occupies” the premises for a limited time:

Don’t expect any to turn up in style capitals such as New York, Tokyo, Paris and Milan, for the idea is to set up shop in areas which appear to be off the fashion map. Once the city is chosen, the search is on for a place which has something to say about the city’s history. At Bios, for instance, the Parthenon acts as a backdrop (the monument is also featured on the Greek campaign’s poster, which is written in Greek).

Without any fanfare and publicity, each opening is announced only a few days before (“It drops like a bomb,” according to Papadopoulos), while no outlet advertises. (via kathimerini)

Guerrilla 1, the first of the two fragrances in the series, was inspired by a Comme des Garçons Guerilla store in Berlin which took over the premises of a former butcher shop…

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