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Lancome Peut Etre, Heeley Sel Marin ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 13 April 2008 48 Comments

Lancome Peut Etre perfumeLancôme has launched a new fragrance for women, Peut-Être:

The hope of love, soft as a breeze.

Alone in her beloved French garden, a woman wanders among roses, lilac, iris and jasmine. She is thinking of him, knowing that he loves her but hoping he will soon show her a sign that will banish all her doubts. A breeze arises and strokes her skin, carrying fragrant petals softly into her hair. She closes her eyes and lets the aura of the garden envelop her senses. She hears footsteps, opens her eyes and looks into his. She sees a new and special intensity in his gaze. And is something hidden in his hand? The moment is electric. Something important is going to happen…peut-être…perhaps.

Note that the packaging is the same as that used for the reissues in the La Collection range, but Lancôme no longer lists "La Collection" on their US website (it is still listed in France and the UK, and the US site does still sell Climat and Mille et une Roses), and the website does not even mention the 1930s scent of the same name. We'll see!

Lancôme Peut-Être is $125 for 50 ml Eau de Parfum. (via lancome-usa) Update: see a review of Lancôme Peut-Être.

Sel Marin by HeeleyHeeley has launched a new fragrance, Sel Marin:

Feel the sun, warm sand and a gentle breeze of fresh sea air. A refreshing and striking note of lemon will fade to reveal an aquatic green note, while vetiver and light drift woods of cedar and birch dry slowly in the sand and salty, sea air.

The notes include lemon, bergamot, sea salt, algae, vetiver, birch and cedar. (via heeleydesign)

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: heeley, lancome

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  1. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 11:18 am

    R –
    Are you serious with the Lancome copy? Are you sure you didn't lift this from one of the Prixe Faux entries? LOL! I'm sorry…but I kept waiting for the punchline!
    Heeley sounds a lot like TDC's Sel de Vetiver. I'm looking forward to comparing them, if I can get my hands on the Heeley
    Happy chilly Sunday!

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  2. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 12:13 pm

    LOL — looks like it, doesn't it?

    Having the same chilly Sunday here — too cold to do yard work, at least for that 🙂

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  3. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 12:39 pm

    That's why it's very important to not be sipping coffee whilst perusing perfume copy – you just never know what's lurking there to make you laugh out loud!

    We had a lovely, warm week and I broke out the muguet scents in celebration…alas, they've gone back in the drawer. LotV might be hardy in their natural form but on me, at least, not even Diorissimo can withstand the chill and hail/snow we're having. I'm back to warm, peppery scents until it warms up again!

    What do you wear in this chilly/transitional weather?

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  4. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 12:58 pm

    Oh dear, hail & snow! We're not that cold here — just a bit chilly. I put on Tumulte Pour Homme today.

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  5. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 1:09 pm

    Too bad he didn't show up saying: “J'arrive.” Then we'd know for sure that the ad copy people are lurking here, looking for inspiration. (I *loved* Heaven Sings to the Dandelion – thanks, VanillaGirl!)

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  6. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 1:23 pm

    OMG! I forgot all about that line! That IS priceless, LOL!

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  7. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 1:53 pm

    I want to know what's hidden in his hand? A gun? Maybe there's a slight metallic edge to the scent. At least THAT would be different….

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  8. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 2:08 pm

    glad to know there's another twisted soul out there:-) My first thought was 'a stiletto'……probably not the visuals Lancome was going for…then again, one never knows!

    Love the idea of a metallic edge – that would be different!

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  9. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 3:14 pm

    Has anyone ever targeted a scent for the hidden serial killer? Lancome could have a corner on this market since the floral/fruity 15-25 year olds are saturated.

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  10. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 3:22 pm

    'new and special intensity in his gaze'…. creepy !

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  11. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 3:34 pm

    “Peut Etre” is not a good name for a perfume. Many people don't even know how to pronounce it, let alone what it means.

    Their fragrance “Poeme” was also way to french to pronounce.

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  12. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 3:40 pm

    Oh well “La Chasse Aux Papillons” by L'Artisan Parfumeur is also as french as a name can be 🙂

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  13. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 4:35 pm

    Ha! I couldn't come up with anything as good as this one. When I got to 'And is something hidden in his hand?' I laughed so much I'm still wheezing. A work of genius, this.

    Intrigued by that Heeley.

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  14. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 4:40 pm

    So…what does Peut Etre actually SMELL like? Lol.

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  15. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 4:45 pm

    When I read roses, lilac, iris and jasmine, I keep wondering if these can blossom at the same time of the year?

    Yes Vanillagirl what does Peut Etre smell like…good question !

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  16. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 4:49 pm

    I mean Asha…

    and LOL.. Vanillagirl..:-D

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  17. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 5:47 pm

    I half expected the Lancome copy to start talking about someone's “throbbing manhood.”
    I would love to smell Sel Marin.

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  18. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 6:21 pm

    Well yeah. It's hidden in his hand.

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  19. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 7:15 pm

    Ok, I missed all the fun here today obviously!!

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  20. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 9:36 pm

    The answer to simultaneous bloom time would be “no', but I am sure you already knew that! In the NE US, Lilacs are due soon, and roses won't bloom till June. Also, we can't grow Jasmine (not hardy), and the irises require completely different planting conditions. So, whatever garden she is in–it is a complete fabrication.

    Wouldn't it be great if she smelled the loamy soil and the scent of tree branches freshly chipped? Then the guy could be one of the gardeners, and caress her cheek with a garden-gloved hand, preferrably with some flower stem sap he got on the gloves from pruning. Oh wait, that would be a Comme des Garcons, scent, I think. 🙂

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  21. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 9:39 pm

    Really purple prose. When I got to the part of something in his hand and a new look in his eye, I thought, “I'll bet I'm not going to find out what this smells like, and won't know what it was he had in his hand.” Perhaps a picture of his mistress, so she can rush from the scene into a wooded glade to sob her heart out and create a woody, salt-tinged fragrance? Oh, that Heely fragrance wasn't related. Too bad, I was on a roll.

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  22. Anonymous says:
    13 April 2008 at 11:02 pm

    agree on the prix eaux faux-ness of the lancome…the heeley sounds good for summer (or wishing for summer to come around)… it's the middle of april and it snowed in montreal!

    sometimes i laugh out loud when some anglophones try and pronounce the overly french names of perfumes. i live in a predominantly franco province (although quebecois french is more quebecois than “real” french), but you still see some funny pronounciations…

    the best mangled americanized pronounciations i've heard:

    ce soir ou jamais (annick goutal)

    le chevrefeuille (AG)

    la chasse aux papillons (l'artisan)

    tubereuse criminelle, chypre rouge, louve (or any of the serge lutens really, with louve, you get “louvRe” a lot instead of the proper pronounciation)

    l'eau d'hiver (frederic malle)… just to name a few.

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  23. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 7:26 am

    Peut-etre sounds cheesier than the lyrics of classical Egyptian love songs LOL.

    The fragrance is not my style. From that exclusive range, the only one to smell good on me is Climat.

    The sea breeze frag sounds more promising although a bit sterile and FMF (Fast Moving Fragrance, how about that for a new term?)

    Am very dissapointed with the lack of originality of the 2008 releases, just sampled the Kenzo anniversary edition. The bottle looks like Cacharel Amor Amor and the juice is FMF 🙂

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  24. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 8:17 am

    Nile Goddess, so agree with you on the Kenzo anniversary ed…the boxes look nicer on photo's than in reality and the bottle is exactly like Cacharels' Amor Amor.

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  25. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 10:26 am

    LOL…yes, you were!

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  26. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 10:28 am

    LOL — you would be APPALLED if you heard me talking about perfume — I cannot pronounce anything. In fact, if someone says a name correctly to me, I don't know what they're talking about. When Victoria of Bois de Jasmin talks perfume w/ me, she has to put on a fake American accent just to make herself understood!

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  27. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 10:29 am

    Oh no — you mean the Kenzo Vintage Edition stuff, right? Drat, had hopes for that one.

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  28. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 11:14 am

    Glad I'm not the only one who wondered what's in his hand? I totally got the Fabio bodice ripper paperback image with this blurb. I swear that part about the breeze makes the image much more solid: both Fabio and our heroine have their hair blown back by the wind as he bends her backward within one arm and with the other, reached for a crock of butter substitute. Mystery solved. You know they lifted this from that commercial.

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  29. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 11:42 am

    It was chemical and throat – cloying. It reminded me of Burberry Brit overlayed with Ange ou Demon or perhaps Euphoria, a mix of incompatible notes in any case.

    Initially I thought to keep the little paper and allow the scent develop so I can write something intelligent as you do. Spraying on skin was out of the question, wasn't going to spoil my halo of Azuree Soleil over that chemical weapon.

    Sadly the chemical wiff was so bad the paper ended in the first bin.

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  30. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 2:19 pm

    Ouch!! Can I ask where you tried it? Was going to do a mall run hopefully later this week.

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  31. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 4:21 pm

    R. I have seen Kenzo A.Ed. at Sephora but did not try it. With EL Br. Goddess and Prada Tendre on my hands I did not feel like spraying another one on me.

    Nile Goddess has tried it though.

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  32. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 4:46 pm

    I know enough to know to not even try to pronounce French names. So I am always sort of worried someone will ask me what perfume I am wearing, because I will have to write it down for them. So what does Peut Etre mean, and how does one pronounce it?

    As for what is in his hand, I assumed it was a condom.

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  33. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 4:47 pm

    MW, do you like EL Bronze Goddess?

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  34. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 8:09 pm

    MW, thanks!

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  35. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 8:45 pm

    I was intrigued until I got to “aquatic”…then I deflated.

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  36. Anonymous says:
    14 April 2008 at 8:47 pm

    It just means perhaps/maybe, something like that. Like, maybe he'll need that condom, maybe not.

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  37. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 3:18 am

    Existentialist, I did not like Bronze Goddess at all.

    Bronze Goddess is the first fragrance by EL that I deeply dislike, it has too much coconut and too much of very strong beach skin to my taste. It is like a very dominant smelling suntan lotion. When I came home I did my best to scrub it off, but it still stayed there for hours.

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  38. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 4:22 am

    At Sephora, it's the only place where they have it at the moment.

    I was checking Fann Parfumerie, another chain we have in Prague, and fell in love with Lalique Encre Noire, it smells incredible on my skin. Everything I wanted in a perfume!

    By the way, I love Azuree Soleil, now relabelled Bronze Goddess. I love the citrus and coconut and everything else. Have not tried Bronze Goddess rthough it won't be released here until June, so I can't tellif the fragrance is the same or different.

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  39. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 9:35 am

    Nile Goddess, yesterday I tried Bronze Goddess at Sephora Palladium in Prague…

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  40. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 11:43 am

    peut-etre is pronounced like “puh-tetruh” except the “tre' at the end is very soft, like you're almost saying it but not quite. the t on the end would usually be silent but because there is a vowel right after it it is prounounced with the second word (liason/enchainement rule). it means maybe.

    hopefully the girl in the ad copy is smart enough to make sure the condom is actually used in the process.

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  41. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 11:48 am

    You're a riot! And thanks for translating.

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  42. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 11:50 am

    Wow, that's pretty damning. I dislike suntan lotion smell (which is a drag, since I need to use sunscreen all the time) and coconut even more. Thanks for the feedback. Hope you are enjoying spring.

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  43. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 12:01 pm

    Azuree Soleil I have tried only once and in my memory Az.Sl. was better and more 'spicy'. I did not particularly like Azuree Soleil either but still more than Br. Gd.

    🙂 how can you get lost in a tiny mall like Palladium..??

    I am so glad you mentioned Fann Perfumery… don't think I have ever been in Kotva mall….and I live so close to Namesti Republiky..;)

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  44. Anonymous says:
    15 April 2008 at 1:24 pm

    Thanks!

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  45. Anonymous says:
    16 April 2008 at 5:26 am

    Robin have been back to Sephora today and tried Kenzo Vintage, and to me Kenzo Vintage smells very similar to Kenzo Jungle (Elephant..?). So people who like Jungle will most certainly like this one as well.

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  46. Anonymous says:
    16 April 2008 at 4:56 pm

    Thanks, hope to try it soon.

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  47. Anonymous says:
    30 April 2008 at 1:54 am

    yes, most americans will butcher that name, peut etre.

    also, i'm not crazy about the bottle.

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  48. Anonymous says:
    30 April 2008 at 12:14 pm

    HA — I'll certainly butcher it, I'm sure!

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