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Max Mara Silk Touch & new fragrances from Sonoma Scent Studio

Posted by Robin on 14 May 2007 11 Comments

Max Mara Silk Touch perfumeItalian fashion house Max Mara has launched a fruity floral variation on their original fragrance debut, 2004's Max Mara. The new fragrance, Max Mara Silk Touch...

...was inspired by the silk flower and opens with notes of berberry, and cherry blossom. The heart features the key silk flower note in addition to jasmine while the base contains cedar and musk.

Max Mara Silk Touch was created by perfumer Daphne Bugey, and is available in 40 and 90 ml Eau de Toilette. (quote via cosmeticsint.co.uk, additional information via cosmeticnews)

Sonoma Scent Studio has launched three new fragrances:

Encens Tranquille: We've replaced the old Incense scent with a new drier blend. Encens Tranquille is a soothing dry and woodsy incense scent with frankincense, cedar, sandalwood, and ambergris on a base of soft musk.

Fireside Intense: A smoky scent with cedar, sandalwood, incense, guaiacwood, birch tar, cade, nagarmotha (Cyperus), leather, orris, and musk.

Lieu de Reves: We've updated this scent to soften the orris a bit, decrease the vanilla, and increase the leather notes. It has the same dry orris but a different balance with a really nice smooth sueded drydown.

(via sonomascentstudio)

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: daphne bugey, max mara, sonoma scent studio

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  1. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 8:23 am

    wow!

    what a surprise!

    a fruity floral!

    craving more and more for Kelly Caleche… !

    Gx

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  2. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 9:00 am

    The fruity florals are taking over the world, LOL.

    Kelly Caleche is tops on my list this year, and also hoping we'll still see a new Hermessence.

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  3. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 9:17 am

    that would be a very boring world…. ;-(

    let's hope not…

    maybe soon they'll get tired of it…

    yes… Hermes… I love Hermes.

    hope Kelly Caleche would be something in the line of Eau d'Hermes…. but with more staying power… plus intoxicating flowers…

    a guy can dream no?

    ;-)

    G x

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  4. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 10:28 am

    It's Monday. I'm cranky. It's another fruity floral. What the heck is “silk flower”? Is it a real flower called “silk”? Or is it that dusty wedge you find at Michael's? Because if it's the latter, it doesn't actually smell like anything, fabric glue mebe; sniff it long and hard and you'll get a noseful of dust mites.

    Berberry, do they mean the common “bayberry”, which has a smell, or “barberry”, which has no smell but plenty of the sharpest thorns to be found on any bush and is a bitch to trim? I've been 4-feet deep in dirt, gardening, you see, so I know all about these bayberry barberry nonsense. Anything with a note of “barberry” sends me screaming for a Band-Aid and a slather of Neosporin, so no, I don't think I'm going to buy a barberry perfume. For heaven's sakes there are fry-cook English majors everywhere, couldn't they find one to write an ad that makes sense? I long for these, because I'm one who can't instantly run out and try on a sniff. It would help if I can determine from the ad copy if it's something I'd even like to try.

    Ms. Monday Cranky.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 11:23 am

    So long as it isn't as “pink” as the color of the juice implies, I'll be happy!

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  6. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 12:24 pm

    By berberry, I assume they do mean barberry, and I assume they are talking about the fruit and not the smell of the plant or its blooms. Do you eat them or just whack away at the plant?

    By “silk flower”, hey, your guess is as good as mine. To me, a “silk flower” is a fake flower made of fabric. If there is an actual living flower called “silk flower”, I'm unaware of it, and I'll obviously never find it in Google as it is easily outranked by all the stores selling fake flowers.

    Guessing your average consumer (in the US, anyway) has never eaten a barberry and has no idea what a silk flower is, therefore, the description is very nearly meaningless, even if you're not cranky and it isn't Monday morning :-)

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  7. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 12:42 pm

    *Yawn*. Also, does anyone else think “Silk Touch” is a weird name for a fragrance? Sorry, but the only thing that comes to mind is a tampon brand! I think it's because Playtex makes one called “Silk Glide”- it's what immediately comes to mind when I hear this name, lol.

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  8. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 1:35 pm

    LOL — I hadn't thought of it, but now I always will!

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  9. Anonymous says:
    14 May 2007 at 11:21 pm

    If memory serves, I think there is actually some sort of tropical flowering tree called a silk tree (its blooms are called silk flowers). I've seen it listed in some other perfumes before. But then, I could just be hallucinating and spouting nonsense. Must google it.

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  10. Anonymous says:
    15 May 2007 at 9:02 am

    I'm convinced that Dante's Inferno left out the 10th and bleakest circle of Hell – little demons spritzing people with fruity florals for all eternity.

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  11. Anonymous says:
    15 May 2007 at 9:22 am

    LOL!!

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