Heidi Klum will launch Heidi Klum Surprise, a new fruity floral fragrance for women, in February…
Juicy Couture Couture La La ~ new perfume
Juicy Couture has launched Couture La La, a new fragrance for women which might or might not be a variation on an existing fragrance in the line…
Happy Thanksgiving 2012 ~ open thread
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating today.
Whether you’re celebrating or not, feel free to talk about anything you like: what fragrance you’re wearing today, what you’re going to eat for dinner, what you’re planning to buy on Black Friday…whatever you like, so long as it doesn’t conflict with our comment policy.
We are traveling to be with family later today; I will join in when I can…
Memo Luxor Oud ~ fragrance review
French niche line Memo just launched Luxor Oud* (Oud of the Pharaohs), an olfactory nod to “ancient Egypt and its monumental architecture;” Memo PR provides images of Luxor, the Nile, and crocodiles (ever smelled a crocodile?) Having recently seen the striking Tutankhamun exhibit here in Seattle, I was ready for a perfume snapshot of the New Kingdom. I wanted a spooky-quirky “mummification” perfume (ingredients used in preserving the body after death included beeswax, honey, juniper berries, cinnamon, lichen, palm wine, resins from evergreen trees, wet earth from the Nile riverbanks…even tar (used during the Greco-Roman period). I would also have been thrilled with a kyphi (incense) perfume, with aromas of herbs, wine, raisins, mastic, honey and storax.
Perhaps what I wanted from Luxor Oud was too “literal” and unimaginative? After spraying on Luxor Oud for the first time, I wondered: “Were there strawberries in ancient Egypt?” “Was Luxor the birthplace of fruity perfumes?”
Luxor Oud reminds me of a better-made, higher quality Estée Lauder Wood Mystique — a fruit-ful oud(ish) fragrance. Luxor Oud opens with a powerful fruit accord, accent not on citrus but on red fruits (not the ugly raspberry-scented toilet paper note of Wood Mystique but a smoky strawberry aroma). A mellow, low-impact rose note tinges the fruit — supplying a hint of flowers…
If it’s out there, Dior will find it
A new 60 second spot for Christian Dior J’Adore, narrated by Charlize Theron.
Below the jump, the 22 minute (!) film; from the brand’s description: “From Grasse to India, Murano to Paris, follow the fragrance trail of J’adore, where creation comes to life. Luxuriant and sophisticated, J’adore L’absolu sublimely enhances the intensity and sensuality of its floral notes in a perfume in which flower absolutes harmoniously combine: sweet and vibrant Damask rose, seductive and luminous Arabian jasmine, and powerful and voluptuous Indian tuberose.”