Our sixth annual holiday gift poll (see 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012). Here are the three questions:
What is the fragrance-related gift you’d most like to receive this year?
Let’s say you were going to ask for just one unsniffed fragrance this year, what would it be?
Are you giving any fragrance items for gifts this year, and if so, what?
My answers…
Molyneux Paris has launched Quartz Addiction, a new spicy oriental fragrance for men. Quartz Addiction is a flanker to 1994’s Quartz Pour Homme…
While women's fragrance sales have increased by two per cent in both the UK and US, the men's fragrance market has enjoyed a punchy five per cent growth according to WWD. And it's mostly down to this year's new launches for the boys. [...] The top five launches for 2013 included Gucci Guilty Black Pour Homme, Polo Red, Givenchy's Gentleman Only and Dolce & Gabbana The One. Only one fragrance for woman made it to the top five, See by Chloé.
— Read more at Men's fragrance sales soar in the UK and US at the Telegraph.
House of Cherry Bomb is a collaborative project between Maria McElroy (of Aroma M) and Alexis Karl (of Scent by Alexis), two New York-based independent perfumers. The first pair of Cherry Bomb fragrances, Truth or Dare and Rebel Angel, were both vanilla-based gourmands created for younger female wearers. Cardamom Rose and Tobacco Cognac are the first two fragrances in the line’s exclusive “Atelier collection” (available through the Aroma M Atelier in Brooklyn), and they seem aimed at a more grown-up clientele, one with a taste for unconventional (yet wearable) blends.
Cardamom Rose is “an enchanting scent to be worn in all seasons…with subtle spice, trails of Moroccan flowers and traces of smoke.” The mention of Morocco seems important here — perhaps this fragrance is meant to evoke a stroll through the streets of Tangier and the mingled scents of fruit stands, flower markets, spice shops, and smoke drifting out of cafés…
It’s Black Friday or Buy Nothing Day — take your pick. Whether you’re shopping or not, it never hurts to look, right? As we usually do, we’re kicking off this year’s string of holiday gift posts with a bunch o’ scented bath & body products. More to come over the next few weeks!
More holiday shopping ideas: check out EauMG’s 2013 Holiday Gift Guide for Natural Beauties.
From Escentric Molecules, Body Washes in the brand’s 01, 02 and 03 fragrances: “…the main ingredient is Energen. This in conjunction with the fragrance helps give the product an unprecedented four-in-one action; each wash is simultaneously energising, moisturising, cleansing and fragrancing.” At Barneys, $45 each for 200 ml…