Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania will present Making Scents: The Art and Passion of Fragrance from April 10 to November 21:
An intersection of flora, fashion and science, the exhibition will transform the Gardens’ gemlike conservatory into a museum for the senses…
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Italian indie perfume house La Via del Profumo has launched Mecca Balsam / Balsamo della Mecca, a new fragrance inspired by a trip to Mecca:
In Mecca, the scents of Labdanum resin, of Benzoin, frankincense and of the precious Agar wood…
Donna Karan’s fresh apple fragrance, DKNY Be Delicious (2004), has spawned a multitude of flankers and collector editions, of which the Candy Apple Trio — Ripe Raspberry, Sweet Caramel and Juicy Berry — is the latest. Apologies to its fans, but the original is not a favorite of mine, and of the flankers, only Delicious Night really captured my attention — and even that one is not really something I would wear. So I suppose you should take the following with an even larger grain of salt than usual?
DKNY Delicious Ripe Raspberry Candy Apple (red bottle, shown below; with notes of apple, lime, peony, lily and cola accord) is not as berry-ish as I’d expected — there’s much less berry than in Delicious Night, although this fragrance also has a much paler, fresher base so there’s less to counteract what berry there is. A nice shot of citrus in the opening keeps it from being too sweet while the raspberry calms, and overall, Ripe Raspberry strikes me as more fresh than candied…
Daisy Fuentes has launched Dianoche Passion, the fourth fragrance in her day/night duo series (see also Dianoche, Dianoche Ocean, Dianoche Love):
“Give in to the temptation of Dianoche Passion…”