Nasomatto has launched China White, their sixth fragrance:
The result of a “quest to reveal the strength of fragility, ” and following the concept of “overdosing” on the power of a scent, Nasomatto’s newest fragrance, China White, is unlike any other. Controversially named after a type of heroin popular in the 1980s and with an opaque white ceramic top, this heady new concoction stands out even amongst the other scents in the Nasomatto collection. Powdery and slightly floral, China White breathes with a strong and indefinable element that will leave the wearer endlessly curious as to what exactly they’re sensing. Let’s just call it the “It” factor.
Nasomatto China White is available in 30 ml Extrait de Parfum, and can be found now at Luckyscent in the US or First in Fragrance in Germany. (quote via luckyscent)
Update: see a review of Nasomatto China White.
The 'It' factor is expensive isn't It ($148 for less than 1 ounce).
Well I guess if Tom Ford can make scents that smell like drugs (Tuscan Leather) thus a trend was born. (sigh)
And to think that a few years ago everyone was up in arms because Dior released a fragrance named Addict. Little did they know…
Come on, R — this is clearly a long-lost entry in the Prix Eau Faux. I'm not falling for it.
Also, this sounds as snooze-worthy as Peut-Etre, a powdery-floral? I'm sensing … I'm sensing a fragrance I can live without! Bask in the strength of my fragility, hon.
PS will it EVER stop raining?!? Power out all over the place still. All the stoplights. Traffic is a nightmare. cuz you know how courteous all the dc drivers are
Yep — but granted, it is concentrated. Most parfums are not cheap.
On the drug names — yep again. That shock value is lost to us now, isn't it?
M, I have yet to try a single Nasomatto, so I'm basking in the fragility of the strength, LOL…
But hey, I had no idea — we had some storms earlier in the week, but not that terrible other than some trees down, and they're over now. Didn't know it was that bad down there. And on the DC drivers: uh, yeah! Not the nicest. I've been away so long that driving on Connecticut in MD on those narrow lanes scares me now.
this sounds like White Shoulders…if you leave the top off the splash bottle for awhile.
Remember when Opium caused such consternation and shock back in the late seventies? “It'll make drug use seem cool!” Now you'd have to call a scent Popef*cker to get a rise out of anybody (William Donahue, mostly), and it wouldn't surprise me at all if that was the next Etat Libre D'Orange scent.
Even so, when I read the name, I did think, “China White? Isn't that a kind of heroin?!” with mild astonishment. It faded pretty fast, though.
LOL — I thought of dishes, so I'm not even worth trying to shock.
Etat Libre d'Orange hasn't anywhere left to go on the sexual front, you're right. Religion is probably next.
It would be VERY funny if a fragrance named for heroin turned out to smell like White Shoulders…
Made me almost spray tea all over the keyboard!
I did a double-take a “China White” as well, but I wasn't *shocked*, per se. Living in the age of irony and all.
I don't think you should bait ELdO on the sexual shock front–the internet has taught me never to think, “now, I've heard it all!”
True!
LOL, we just had a new Chinese restaurant open here in Kyiv, Ukraine, and it is called… China White. I wonder if the owners have any clue…:))))
I know the quote is from Luckyscent's site, but the first thing I thought is that when the copy has to say “controversially named”… it ain't controversial anymore. Show, don't tell.
Oh dear! Guessing they've no idea…
So true!
You must live in the DC area. My husband was furious when the power went out while he was in the middle of working on the computer. It came back 18 hours later. Meanwhile, here is the desert, it is 104. Come visit.
But I'm with you on this. the Powdery element did not elude me–heroine, powdery—wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Maybe you snort it instead of spray it.
LOL…I am a bit slow sometimes. I read named after 80's “heroine” the first time through and I am thinking: Molly Ringwald? Kathleen Turner?
HA — that would be funny!