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Next month, Versace will launch Gianni Versace Couture, a new luxury limited edition perfume for women. It is the first fragrance release from Versace's couture division.
The juice, by perfumer Sophie Labbé, is a woody floriental with notes of bergamot, mandarin, red berries, tangerine, jasmine, heliotrope, almond blossom, tonka bean, patchouli and sandalwood…
For years, "the nose" of Aveda has traveled the Amazon River in Brazil, the flower fields of Corsica and the banks of the Nile in Egypt in search of his aromatic holy grail: a lone, elusive ingredient that just might defy mother nature.
But more often than not these days, Aveda's chief perfumer Ko-ichi Shiozawa has returned from his quests empty-handed. His frustration is apparent in the way he rubs his temples and raps his knuckles to a drumbeat of discontent at his vial-strewn desk.
— From For Aveda, the problem with common scents, a fascinating account of perfumer Ko-Ichi Shiozawa's quest for organic materials. Many thanks to Emily for sending this in (it was originally published in August) after reading yesterday's announcement of Aveda's upcoming Ancient Attar perfume.
Everybody hates Paris, but she is on the front page.
That’s Neil Katz of Parlux speaking.1 Parlux holds the Paris Hilton fragrance license, and Katz has good reason to be optimistic about her selling power: the Paris Hilton fragrances have reportedly made some $90 million. So far. As of early October, Fairy Dust had already added another $1.5 million to the kitty, and it’s expected to net $20 million before it’s all over and done with…
Chandler Burr, author of The Perfect Scent, will be giving a talk in New York City on December 8 as part of the Times Talks series:
Perfumes are classic holiday gifts. But perfume is also one the world's great art forms. Discover both aspects of scent in this fascinating interactive guided tour of some of the world's fragrance masterpieces, led by Chandler Burr, fragrance critic for The New York Times Style Magazine and author of “The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris & New York.” You will smell jasmine from Grasse, pink peppercorn absolutes…