L’Artisan Parfumeur Dzing! ~ fragrance review
There are few perfumes as defined by their stories as is L’Artisan Parfumeur Dzing!. People who have heard about Dzing! but not smelled it still usually know that it’s supposed to smell like a circus — well, either that, or like cardboard.
When Dzing! was launched in 1999, it was called Désir de Cirque. In what surely must be one of its most successful bits of perfume copywriting, L’Artisan described perfumer Olivia Giacobetti’s inspiration for the fragrance as the full range of the circus’s “sights, sounds, smells and tastes”. They topped off the description with a tiny drawing on Dzing!’s label of a lady wearing an ostrich feather in her hair and riding a tiger. With this idea planted in a person’s head, one whiff of Dzing! invokes images of leather harnesses, caramel apples, sweaty trapeze artists, elephants, and the greasy underbellies of aging trucks with hay spilling out their backs…
Joop! Thrill ~ new fragrances
Joop! will introduce Joop! Thrill, a new duo of fragrances for men and women, this coming February. The scents aim to capture the excitement of an urban adventure by night.
Joop! Thrill Woman was developed by perfumer Alexandra Kosinski, and features fresh dew, peach, lily, mimosa, iris, vanilla, tonka bean and sandalwood. It will be available in 30, 50 and 75 ml Eau de Parfum and in matching body products…
The Monday Mail ~ help Andrea find a wedding perfume
Andrea is getting married in the UK next June. Like Rebecca, she's looking for her perfect wedding fragrance, something that will be special and always remind her of her wedding day. She says she's tried all the traditional wedding fragrances but none of them quite fit.
Andrea is in her 30s. She describes herself as shy on the whole, but she's bubbly and outgoing with people she already knows. Her style is classic and understated, although on lazy days she's in “jeans and Ugg boots”. She doesn't wear much jewelry. She says everyone expects her to be in a relatively plain fitted strapless wedding gown, but instead she's going for lace.
On the perfume front, Andrea likes creamy, powdery, soft scents, with floral notes and non-foody vanilla. Some of the scents she likes…
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