French niche line Divine has launched L’Homme Infini, a new fragrance for men…
Rochas Mystere ~ fragrance review
So many perfumes smell like things we know: flowers, fruit, wood, food, spice and funk. A few fragrances — mostly created before the disco era, it seems — are more difficult to pin down. They smell only of themselves. They’re sophisticated, and they’re undoubtedly a challenge to fall in love with in the thirty seconds most perfume shoppers these days take before making the decision to purchase. Rochas Mystère is that kind of fragrance.
In response to a post a few weeks ago, a commenter lamented Mystère’s disappearance. I didn’t have a lot of confidence in my decant, a bonus in a swap years ago, shoddily labeled with scotch tape and a sharpie. As fate would have it, I stumbled over a bottle of Mystère Eau de Parfum at Goodwill just a few days later…
Running around the city
Actress Milla Jovovich and actor Carlos Casagrande for Avon City Rush for Her and for Him. Below the jump, le making of, and below that, perfumers Annie Buzantian and Harry Fremont talk about making the fragrances.
The Monday Mail ~ help Catherine find a new perfume
This week we’re helping Catherine, who wants to find a grownup, seductive evening fragrance that counteracts her youthful, girl-next-door appearance. When she first wrote to me, her perfume experience was minimal, and largely consisted of a “mortifyingly long stalemate” with Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue, which according to Catherine didn’t even smell good on her skin. While she has been on the waiting list, though, she has tried a truly impressive number of fragrances (see below). Here is what we know about Catherine:
She’s single, in her early 30s, and is finishing her dissertation in grad school.
She says she has a sort of apple-cheeked, girl-next-door appearance that makes people think she is younger and sweeter than she actually is, sometimes to their disappointment.
She has just lopped five inches off her girly hair in a related effort to look a little more grown up.
Her clothing tends towards the classic and romantic — her favorite garment is a blush-pink suede trench coat from a small French designer — but she gets bored if there isn’t some kind of unusual design element or a little bit of edge (lately she is coveting Rag + Bone).
Catherine wants a fragrance with some complexity, but she is not necessarily looking for something overly challenging…