Perfume coverage in the November issues of Allure, Details, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar and W; please comment on any fragrance-related coverage you’ve seen in other fashion & beauty magazines:
Allure
Cover: Ashley Greene
Scent strips: Dolce & Gabbana The One, Calvin Klein Euphoria, Miss Dior, Juicy Couture Viva La Juicy, Oscar de la Renta Live in Love
Editorial coverage: The Beauty Reporter section includes Bottega Veneta in the “Editor’s Favorites” (p. 46), the “Smell This” feature (random passersby comment on a scent) features Fan di Fendi (p. 52) and “Modern/Classic!” (p. 56) is a long blurb about Guerlain Shalimar and Shalimar Parfum Initial.
The Insider's Guide includes a short piece on Givenchy Dahlia Noir (Ladies Man, p. 84).
Details
Cover: David Gandy
Scent strips: Calvin Klein Eternity Aqua; Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male; Curve (by Curve…whatever that is)
Editorial coverage: none
GQ
Cover: Eminem, Keith Richards and Lil Wayne
Scent strips: Bleu de Chanel; Eau de Lacoste L.12.12; Givenchy Play; Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male; Versace pour homme; John Varvatos Star U.S.A.
Editorial coverage: nothing
Harper’s Bazaar
Cover: Beyoncé
Scent strips: Donna Karan Cashmere Mist; Chanel No. 5 Eau Première; Miss Dior Eau de Parfum
Editorial coverage: pp. 185-190, Is Your Fragrance Wrong for You? What you spritz, just like your wear-with-everything bag or shoe, says a lot about you. No need to choose blindly; Chandler Burr reveals the secrets to finding the scents that suit your style (if your style consists mainly of Harper’s Bazaar’s major clothing advertisers and editorial faves: Yves Saint Laurent, Marchesa, Jimmy Choo, Tom Ford, Gucci, Donna Karan, Armani, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, Michael Kors, Carolina Herrera, Balmain, Givenchy, Chanel, Prada, Lanvin, etc.)
W
Cover: Nicki Minaj
Scent strips: none
Editorial coverage: none
Note: As always, thanks to Kevin, who covered everything but Allure.
ELLE Magazine, November:
I didn’t read them but I saw there were several columns, several pages worth, in a perfume-related segment. Here’s one of them that made it’s way online:
http://www.elle.com/Life-Love/Sex-Relationships/I-Love-You-You-Smell-Nice
Looks like this one is about scent, couldn’t find the others, but I remember the print magazine had a sizeable (for Elle which is mostly ads) section.
Thanks so much Bonbori!
Chandler Burr’s article
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/best-fall-fragrances-1111
Thanks!
This article is good and WTH in turns, like maybe some company reps had something to do with the clothing/fume pairings he recommends (Balenciaga jacket with BCBG fruity floral, I’m looking at you!). Oddball recommendations not withstanding, I really enjoyed the advice. Thanks Prism.
Not to sound like a simpleton, but I’ve either been lost or there’s a typo here. 😛 Did you mean Miss Dior, or Miss Dior Cherie for the Allure and Harper’s Bazaar scent strip features? I’m guessing Miss Dior Cherie, unless there’s some new version of Miss Dior out, because it seems unusual to me to feature such an old scent…
It says Miss Dior — no Cherie — but has that picture of whatsherface who did the last ad for Miss Dior Cherie. And they totally reformulated and repackaged Miss Dior lately.
Wow. I thought you had meant Miss Dior Cherie also.
Interesting, thanks for filling me in! 🙂 I never saw you guys do an article on a new Miss Dior, so I didn’t know they were even marketing it again….also, it’s not in Sephora right now either, so I had no idea there was a new one! Hopefully a tester will show up there soon, since they’ve starting marketing it in magazines….
If this works, you should see the “Miss Dior” website
http://www.dior.com/beauty/usa/en/minisite/fragrance/mdc_2011/tf470-13.html
I have not done an article because I don’t have any “official” information to report. There is some information at Grain de Musc that says that they will eventually call Miss Dior Cherie Miss Dior, and the original Dior will be labelled “original”:
http://graindemusc.blogspot.com/2011/06/lvmh-repatriates-miss-dior-ex-cherie.html
But I have not seen any press materials on the subject.
The website (such a fun layout, by the way!) appears to refer to the perfume as both Miss Dior and Miss Dior Cherie — so I guess like you said it’s just Miss Dior now. She lost her strawberry top note so now she’s nobody’s darling (sob, sob) :’ (
Thanks again for the good info.
Sorry it isn’t happier news!
Thanks for the info! 🙂 I wonder if the new Miss Dior Cherie, now Miss Dior, will smell significantly different without the wild strawberry and buttered popcorn notes? Any predictions, Robin? I bought my bottle a while ago before any changes, so I’m interested in whether the new one will smell different at all…. 🙂
Sonam, from what I’ve read it smells quite different, but I have not tried it myself.
Does anyone know what the blurb about Serge Vitriol d’Oeillet in Harper’s Bazaar says? It’s with a scent I’m not familiar with (Cuirs eau de parfum). I have a bookstore trip planned for Monday anyway, but saw that it’s mentioned and am just curious.
Sorry, I don’t!
Thanks anyway…got my books but forgot to check it out. :-\