Deal at luckyscent: get free Fedex ground shipping (Continental US only) on orders of $75 or more using coupon code June, good through 6/30. New items include Montale Red Vetyver.
New at senteursdailleurs (Brussels): Comme des Garcons Energy C, Aesop Mystra.
Christian Dior will introduce an Asia-exclusive version of Miss Dior Chérie this August, Miss Dior Chérie Blooming Bouquet:
Dior Operational Marketing Director for Travel Retail Alain Cadet commented: “Our Asian customers loved Miss Dior Chérie’s bottle, with the elegant little ribbon, and loved the colour pink. Still, the fragrance was too Western, and not suited to Asian tastes.”…
This month, Jo Malone will relaunch White Tie and Tiara as a limited edition fragrance:
Introducing White Tie & Tiara, a limited-edition fragrance designed exclusively to support the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Inspired by a unique combination of elegant rose, orange blossom and jasmine, reminiscent of a summer garden, delicate white flowers are enhanced by tantalising hints of lime and orange and perfectly blended with the warmth of cedarwood and sandalwood…
The drawings of topless men started appearing next to lamp posts, bollards and pipes in San Francisco earlier this month.
Others have appeared in the Marais area of Paris.
The posters have been arranged with the street furniture to leave passers-by with a none-too-subtle image of masculinity.
— From Gay artwork attached to lamp posts and pipes, about the street advertising for Etat Libre d'Orange's Tom of Finland fragrance. In the UK Telegraph, found via Gawker (and do see Gawker's illustration).
Sensuous is the latest feminine release from Estee Lauder. It launches this month under the tag line “Every Woman Wears It Her Way”; to drive that point home, four models representing different age groups (Gwyneth Paltrow, Elizabeth Hurley, Hilary Rhoda and Carolyn Murphy) are featured in the fragrance advertising.
According to Karyn Khoury, Estee Lauder's Senior Vice President of Corporate Fragrance Development, Sensuous hopes to “re-invent the idea of feminine woods”. Noting that feminine wood fragrances have typically been restricted to the niche sector and that woods can be too “dark and solid” to appeal to women, Khoury's brief called for something less ponderous:
For Sensuous we imagined a fabulous wooden sculpture, and wondered, if you could take all that sleekness, all that sensuality, but then melt it so that it was fluid, almost like a river of wood, what would that smell like?* …