Jil Sander will launch Sun Eau de Soleil, a new limited edition fragrance for women, in April. Sun Eau de Soleil is a flanker to 1989’s Jil Sander Sun, and promises to be bright, sunny and fresh…
Blood & semen
According to sources in the fragrance industry hired to develop Lady Gaga‘s first fragrance, the pop star has requested that the scent “smell of blood and semen.”
— Read more at Fashionista, and many thanks to everyone who sent this in! As perfumanity already knows, Etat Libre d'Orange beat her to the punch with Secretions Magnifiques, and anyway, Lady Gaga's license went to Coty. I think the most daring thing Coty has done with a celebrity so far was the chocolate and citronella in Sarah Jessica Parker Covet, which famously failed to resonate with consumers. I'm sticking with my original guess of strawberry sorbet and pink pepper.
Hammacher Schlemmer Copper Alembic Perfume Distiller
A Valentine’s gift idea from the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog: a Copper Alembic Perfume Distiller.
Handcrafted in the Iberian Peninsula by Al-Ambik, makers of fine distilling instruments since 1853, this copper alembic distiller is reminiscent of those used for over 1,200 years to extract essential oils from plants for use in perfumes…
Intangible
A physicist can analyze the sound waves music makes in the air, and a musicologist can describe the formal structures which composers use when they harness those vibrations, but it is impossible to describe adequately the effect music has on us except by some sort of poetic analogy. Perfume is similar. A chemist can analyze its molecules in a laboratory, a perfumer can tell us what ingredients went into the bottle, but the effect of perfume on us, our response to it, is intangible.
— Columnist Stephen Hough, from Nosing around II – music and perfume at The Telegraph.
L’Occitane Rose Jardin Delice ~ new perfume
L’Occitane has launched Rose Jardin Délice, a new fragrance for women:
A fragrance to herald the coming of spring… A fresh, tender, juicy, fruity floral Eau de Toilette…