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Honore des Pres We Love New York ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 31 March 2010 34 Comments

Honoré des Prés Vamp à NY, I Love Les Carottes and Love Coco

French organic line Honoré des Prés will launch We Love New York, a collection of three new fragrances, in late April. Vamp à NY, I Love Les Carottes and Love Coco were all developed by perfumer Olivia Giacobetti, and will be packaged in stylized versions of the city's ubiquitous coffee cups.

Vamp à NY ~ based on tuberose, with rum and resins.

I Love Les Carottes ~  with carrot blossom, sweet orange, vanilla, patchouli and iris.

Love Coco ~  a gourmand with coconut, vanilla and coriander leaves.

Honoré des Prés Vamp à NY, I Love Les Carottes and Love Coco will be available in 50 ml Eau de Parfum; look for them at Bon Marché and Colette before they go into wider distribution in May. (via extrait.it, courrier-picard.fr)

Update: see reviews of I Love Les Carottes , Love Coco, Vamp à NY.

Filed Under: new fragrances
Tagged With: honore des pres, natural perfume, olivia giacobetti

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  1. boojum says:
    31 March 2010 at 1:31 pm

    The notes don’t appeal to me, but LOVE the packaging! So fun.

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 1:35 pm

      It’s great!

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    • miss kitty v. says:
      31 March 2010 at 1:57 pm

      Agree with that. Cute bottles, too. I did get excited about the first one, only because I read “resins” as “raisins.” The weird thing is, I don’t like raisins, so I don’t know why that would interest me.

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      • asuperlongusername says:
        31 March 2010 at 2:11 pm

        Man, I read that as “raisins” too and didn’t realize. Until I read your comment. I dislike raisins, though. 😛

        Ionno, these sound nice but not necessary. I love the packaging, though.

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  2. krokodilgena says:
    31 March 2010 at 1:32 pm

    are the names “I Love Les Carottes” and “Love Coco” supposed to be related to New York?

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 1:35 pm

      No idea. They don’t know it probably, but many young people in the US will associate “Love Coco” with Conan O’Brien.

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  3. maggiecat says:
    31 March 2010 at 1:46 pm

    Intriguing, certainly, but none of these scents appeals to me particularly either – or evokes New York, really, come to think of it!

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 1:50 pm

      They all sound good to me! But it would be cool if they were all coffee-based.

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      • Tara says:
        31 March 2010 at 2:18 pm

        I agree, they all sound great to me!!! But I must admit that I really like almost everything Olivia Giacobetti does so I am biased.

        Given the packaging, I too was surpised that there was no coffee in any of the fragrances.

        These sound fun ..I can’t wait to try them…Do you think they’ll be in NY somewhere?

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        • Robin says:
          31 March 2010 at 3:13 pm

          Pretty sure Bergdorf Goodman carries the line, so would think they’d have it eventually.

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      • Karin says:
        31 March 2010 at 2:31 pm

        What a great idea!!!!

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  4. monkeytoe says:
    31 March 2010 at 2:13 pm

    Ooh. They all sound interesting to me and I can count on one finger the Giacobetti scents that I have smelled and not liked (Mandarine Tout Simplement).

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 3:13 pm

      I love OG, but you love her even more 🙂

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  5. Karin says:
    31 March 2010 at 2:30 pm

    Jump over to bergamottoebenzoinoATlive.it for first impressions of a couple of the scents, sniffed at Esxense.

    I recently purchased a bottle of HdP’s Sexy Angelic from Beautyhabit cause they dropped the price to $68. Yes, it’s short lived, but I love it. Wish they’d offer it in an EDP…

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 3:27 pm

      Thanks, I’ll look!

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    • Karin says:
      31 March 2010 at 4:34 pm

      Duh. Sorry. That was the email address. Here’s the website:

      http://bergamottoebenzoino.blogspot.com/

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      • Robin says:
        31 March 2010 at 9:39 pm

        Perfect, thanks!

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  6. alucas1877 says:
    31 March 2010 at 2:41 pm

    These do sound interesting but like you all have said, coffee packaging and no coffee notes? also I am not too sure that coffee is very NY per say…I don’t know I could be wrong….the one that sounds interesting to me and worth a sniff is the I Love Les Carrottes and I am pretty sure it’s because of the Iris notes.

    ~Alexandra~

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 3:28 pm

      I love iris too 🙂

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    • AnnieA says:
      31 March 2010 at 4:09 pm

      Methinks it should be We Love Seattle…

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  7. claresparkle says:
    31 March 2010 at 3:40 pm

    I checked out other fragrances by Olivia G. In your listing, some of them are printed in black font and some in purple. Does this mean something? I’m still learning on this wonderful site.

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 9:40 pm

      The ones in purple are links to articles. The others aren’t!

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  8. Jill says:
    31 March 2010 at 4:10 pm

    Definitely want to try these … mostly because they are done by Olivia Giacobetti. She’s done some of my favorites!

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 9:40 pm

      Yeah, me too.

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  9. Philippe says:
    31 March 2010 at 7:12 pm

    I love everything Olivia Giacobetti does. I must try Love Coco and I Love les Carottes. Seems funny.

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    • Robin says:
      31 March 2010 at 9:40 pm

      She’s wonderful.

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  10. Joe says:
    31 March 2010 at 10:15 pm

    Definitely another big fan of Giacobetti here. Carottes is the one that intrigues me most just because of the wacky name and unusual material. And then there’s coconut, vanilla, and … cilantro? Wha…? Veddy inneresting.

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    • Robin says:
      1 April 2010 at 9:53 am

      I hope they are…I did think the first 5 from HdP were well-done.

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  11. Tommasina says:
    1 April 2010 at 9:08 am

    My brain just refuses to accept this; I keep thinking, “Surely Robin wrote these on March 31 for publication on April 1?”

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    • Robin says:
      1 April 2010 at 9:54 am

      LOL! But no.

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  12. Karin says:
    1 April 2010 at 10:23 am

    OK…only posting this here cause I went over to extrait.it to read the copy, and couldn’t find an English link to view it in English…then saw a pop up in Chrome that asked me if I wanted to translate from Italian to English – yes! And voila! Very cool!!!!

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    • Robin says:
      1 April 2010 at 10:31 am

      Yep!

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  13. Theasylph says:
    2 April 2010 at 4:03 pm

    coconut, vanilla and coriander leaves? if the coconut is mellow like coconut milk then I think this could be very promising.

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    • Robin says:
      2 April 2010 at 8:32 pm

      Yes — I’m intrigued!

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