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2011 / Browsing by date: May 2011

Illuminum White Gardenia Petals ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 31 May 2011 185 Comments

Wills & Kate kissing on the balcony

Almost as soon as word got out that Catherine Middleton1 wore Illuminum White Gardenia Petals during her wedding to Prince William, the fragrance flew off the shelves. Illuminum vendors Luckyscent (in the United States) and Roullier White (in Great Britain) have month-plus waiting lists for the fragrance. Illuminum is hard to find, leading me to wager that many of the White Gardenia Petals purchases are unsniffed.

I was definitely curious what White Gardenia Petals smelled like. With what would a prospective queen, dressed in Alexander McQueen, watched by heads of state from around the world, serenaded by choirs and trumpets, surrounded by a massive stone abbey impregnated with centuries of incense — with what would she perfume herself? Thanks to a decant from the industrious [Now Smell This reader] Daisy, I can now tell you. With something that smells like a scented panty liner, that’s what.

I wouldn’t write this if I thought the Duchess of Cambridge were a regular Now Smell This reader. I hope every time she wears White Gardenia Petals she feels the love and exhilaration she felt on her wedding day…

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Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Universalis Forte ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 31 May 2011 5 Comments

Maison Francis Kurkdjian Aqua Universalis Forte

Maison Francis Kurkdjian has launched Aqua Universalis Forte, a new variation on 2009’s Aqua Universalis…

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D&G Anthology La Temperance & Le Fou ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 31 May 2011 20 Comments

D&G Anthology La Temperance & Le Fou

Dolce & Gabbana will launch two more fragrances in the D&G Anthology series this year, 14 La Tempérance and 21 Le Fou. Like the others in the series, they were inspired by Tarot cards…

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Still recovering

Posted by Robin on 31 May 2011 14 Comments

Some of us are still recovering from Ewan McGregor's unforgivable plug for Davidoff Somethingorother ("I find myself in an exhilarating journey" – presumably a journey straight to the bank). Even worse was the Chanel sheckel taken by McGregor's former singing mate, Nicole Kidman. It is a proven medical fact that just the memory of Kidman braying, "I'm a dancer! I love to dance!" still causes the innards of all sentient human beings to curl.

— Hadley Freeman of the Guardian on the new Justin Bieber Someday commercial. Read more at Justin Bieber's perfume ad: seduction by a child is wrong.

CosmetiqueMag fragrance awards 2011

Posted by Robin on 31 May 2011 6 Comments

CosmetiqueMag fragrance award statue

CosmétiqueMag, the “sister-publication” of cosmeticnews.com, has announced the winners of their Beauty Oscar awards for 2011:

The Perfumer of the Year award went to Jacques Cavallier and the ‘Coup de cœur du jury‘ went to Hermès Voyage d’Hermès…

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