Perfume coverage (what coverage?) in the February issues of Allure, Details, Elle, GQ and Harper’s Bazaar; please comment on any fragrance-related coverage you’ve seen in other fashion & beauty magazines:
Allure
Cover: Jennifer Aniston
Scent strips: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, Donna Karan Pure DKNY, Juicy Couture Peace, Love.
Editorial coverage: The Beauty Reporter feature includes a short Q&A with Halle Berry (Reveal launches this month; p. 40). A page on Natalie Portman mentions Miss Dior Chérie (she fronts the scent for Christian Dior; Behind the Scenes: Natalie Portman, p. 63). Coming Up Roses is a page by Frederic Malle about rose perfumes (p. 64). The Super Naturals is an article about natural and botanical products; it includes a list of natural perfumes (p. 101). Everything You Need to Know About Fragrance (p. 104) is a six page spread with everything from blind smell tests to Frequently Asked Questions.
Details
Cover: Andrew Garfield
Scent strips: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue for men
Editorial coverage: None
ELLE
Cover: Katie Holmes
Scent strips: Perry Ellis Night for Men, Calvin Klein Beauty
Editorial coverage: None
GQ
Cover: Muhammad Ali
Scent strips: Ralph Lauren Polo Black, Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue for men
Editorial coverage: Nothing
Harper’s Bazaar
Cover: Nicole Kidman
Scent strips: Lancôme Trésor, Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue for women
Editorial coverage: None
As always, huge thanks to Kevin — he covered all of the above except Allure.
Yikes! That cover of Allure is scaring me! I still think JA is beautiful but did they have to make her look like an actual Barbie doll? Freaky.
Those are zombie eyes.
I think it’s a weird ripoff of that National Geographic cover with the Afghan girl (http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photographers/afghan-girl-cover.html) — yes, Jennifer, you too have suffered!
However, this month’s Allure has heaps of perfume coverage for a change. Heck, they even tested Secretions Magnifique!
Ohhh, I loved that cover. I remember seeing a follow-up show on NatGeo where they found her again and her eyes were still just as striking.
I saw that too. Very moving.
I thought it was an intentional allusion to that famous picture/cover and I liked it.
It’s a very strange cover, and while looking for it online I found the last cover they did of JA, and it was weird too.
I’m thinking more like Stepford Wife, what with the pale lipstick…
That was sort of my thought, too. And it’s hella airbrushed. She looks more like one of those blow up dolls than a real person.
MORE magazine also has a brief interview with Halle Berry about her new fragrance, Reveal, her childhood experiments with perfume, and use of perfume in acting. “Usually when I play a character, I assign a fragrance to her, something I would never, ever wear. That’s the way I get into her skin.” She wore Red Door in Monster’s Ball, which fit the character’s strong personality and “drove everybody crazy.”
It’s so logical when you think about it – now I’m surprised that I can’t remember hearing of other actresses using this trick.
There is also a brief review of Hermes Iris Ukiyoe.
Cover: Molly Sims Scent strips: None
I used to act on stage and always tried to wear a perfume I thought would suit the character I was playing. To my shame/joy, my fragrance even had a review from one of the critics when I played Kate in “She Stoops to Conquer” – he said something along the lines of me being fragrant and rosey (I was wearing Eternity – thought it would be like an 18th century floral – now I think it would be L’Artisan’s La Haie Fleurie). It would be great to compile a list of characters and what we think they should wear; something tells me that we would all have very different ideas.
The reviewer could smell that one of the characters on stage, that you in particular, were wearing eternity!?
No, he didn’t identify it as Eternity, just that I was fragrant! He must have been near the stage and I suppose I wafted towards him whenever I came on. Maybe I was wearing too much!!
I always thought that smell/scent is something that is overlooked in theater productions. It’s a live, immersing experience – if there’s a banquet, I’d like to smell a banquet rather than stale old theater air. But again, someone would probably sue because they were “allergic” to the roast duck scent. *rolls eyes*
We did a production of Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” and the director had liver and onions frying in the wings before curtain up – I didn’t like that!
How interesting about the Red Door, thanks!
Harper’s Bazaar does include Marc Jacobs Daisy Eau So Fresh, Jimmy Choo, and Cartier de Lune on the What’s New page of their beauty section. The caption reads, “Spritz! Spritz! Spring’s prettiest scents are lush, radiant florals.”
Vogue
Tom Ford’s Cherry Lush lipstick and Black Orchid perfume were part of a two-page layout of American fashion and beauty items appreciated by the French.
Scent strips are Calvin Klein Beauty, Lancome Tresor, and Eva by Eva Longoria.
InStyle
Halle Berry’s Reveal is pictured with the star in the What’s Now! section. Reported price is $35 for 1.7 oz edp.
One page of the Beauty section tells you how to braid your hair in a tousled side braid, then suggests a “finishing touch” of “romance in a bottle.” Ralph Lauren Romance, Juliette Has a Gun Not a Perfume, Playboy Play it Sexy, and Jimmy Choo are pictured.
Katy Perry is the subject of this month’s Beauty Talk. She talks about her cat, Kitty Purry, and her fragrance, Purr. “I’m a big fan of gardenias,” said Perry, “but I wanted the scent to be unique, so we added coconut and jasmine. It’s not as sugary as what I wore when I was younger, and not as concentrated as the stuff you smell on older women.”
A bottle of Chloe Love and a couple of Diptyque Roseros candles are among the Romantic Notions “for her” in the Life, Etc. section. Christian Dior Granville made the “for him” page.
They have changed the format of On My Mind, the celebrity fill-in-the-blank feature on the last page. Seems fragrance is no longer one of the blanks to be filled in. Too bad – I really enjoyed reading what perfumes people were wearing, especially if they had none of their own to promote.
Oops! Forgot the scent strips for InStyle:
Lancome Tresor, DKNY Be Delicious (Juiced and Fresh Blossom Juiced), Calvin Klein Eternity (the women’s and men’s versions)
L, thank you so much for the detailed listings!
Submitted by Kind Crow:
The current issue (Feb/March 2011) of ReadyMade magazine has an article titled, “Scents of Wonder” that features one-page write-ups on Mandy Aftel, Andy Tauer, Lyn Harris, Alexandra Balahoutis, and Yosh Han. (p. 70)