Agent Provocateur will launch L’Agent this month. The new “darkly mysterious and powerfully seductive new fragrance” for women (which may or may not be a flanker to the original Agent Provocateur) features pheromones…
Open minds. Free souls.
Actor Orlando Bloom for Boss Orange for Men by Hugo Boss.
Boss Orange for Men by Hugo Boss ~ new fragrance
Hugo Boss will launch Boss Orange for Men in February. The new fragrance is the masculine counterpart to Boss Orange for Women, introduced in 2009, and is fronted by actor Orlando Bloom…
Nina Ricci Fille d’Eve ~ fragrance review
I first smelled Nina Ricci Fille d’Eve on a business trip to Seattle about 10 years ago. Before we left town, a colleague and I stopped by Parfumerie Nasreen and sampled perfumes, none of which I remember at all now. The owner of the shop stopped us as we left. She pulled a small, apple-shaped bottle from a high shelf behind the cash register and asked if I’d like to try it. “This is very special. Fille d’Eve,” she said and held the bottle as if she were presenting it at a game show.
Eve’s daughter. How could I resist trying a fragrance with a name like that? She dabbed a bit on my wrist, and I asked the price. It was something exorbitant, so I left without giving it more than a cursory sniff. Half an hour out of town I sniffed my wrist again. It smelled not quite clean. Not dirty as in body odor, but like an accumulation of skin oil. Not pretty, really, but intriguing.
Over the years I’d thought about Fille d’Eve and wished I could smell it again…
Luckyscent Untitled #6, 7 & 8 ~ new perfumes
Niche retailer Luckyscent has launched three more fragrances in their Untitled series of limited edition perfume oils by indie perfumers:
Untitled #6, by Susanne Lang (shown) ~ “Suzanne Lang has done us the honor of crafting a limited run fragrance around a particularly lovely patchouli oil, vintage 1998…”