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MAC Air of Style ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 24 March 2016 15 Comments

MAC Air of Style

Cosmetics company MAC has launched a new version of Air of Style, first released in 2007.*

Contemporary top notes of red dates and wild peonies set the tone for your can't-be-tamed attitude, heightened with an infusion of white pepper. A bouquet of absolute tuberose, orange blossom and jasmine at the heart gets the pulse racing and feels unabashedly bold with the opulence of ylang ylang and orris. The appeal is magnified by a background of leather blended with rare woods and vetiver–all juxtaposed with creamy hints of tonka beans and golden drops of amber crystals, leaving a lasting sensation of warm intimacy.

MAC Air of Style is available in 20 ($30) and 50 ($49.50) ml, or in a 6 ml rollerball ($22).

(via maccosmetics)

*Or it's the exact same fragrance, hard to tell. Air of Style was also released in a solid format in 2010 and again in 2012.

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  1. AnnS says:
    24 March 2016 at 11:46 am

    I may actually go out of my way to smell this. MAC fragrances fly under the radar. I still adore MAC’s Naked Honey fragrance they released about 5 or so years ago. It was a very well done linden/black locust/mimosa for the price point.

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    • Robin says:
      24 March 2016 at 11:49 am

      Agree, and wish they’d bring back the honey! Of course they might…Turquatic came back.

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  2. Ari says:
    24 March 2016 at 1:33 pm

    Bah! What do we want? MV3! When do we want it? NOW!

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    • Robin says:
      24 March 2016 at 2:11 pm

      I did not even get to try those!

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  3. Absolute Scentualist says:
    24 March 2016 at 2:09 pm

    Seconding a hopeful rerelease for the honey frags. I have and love the other honey scent that’s more chypre and intense though I can’t recall the name right now, though was tempted to grab Naked Honey as well but had to just pick one at the time.

    If they do come back, I’m buying larger bottles of both since they’re such pretty and wearable interpretations on the note.

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    • Robin says:
      24 March 2016 at 2:12 pm

      I am sort of puzzled by their fragrance strategy — you’d think they’d either do fragrance or not. Doesn’t seem useful to do an occasional short lived release? But what do I know. (nothing)

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      • sayitisntso says:
        24 March 2016 at 4:17 pm

        Me thinks they don’t really have a strategy at all, seeing as they’re primarily known as a make-up company. Fragrance seems to be a “hit and run” type of proposition for them. (Disclaimer: I worked for Lauder for a good while.)

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        • Robin says:
          24 March 2016 at 4:30 pm

          I sort of figured they didn’t have a strategy. Just thinking that since they mostly sell stuff at their own counters, fragrance would sell better if there was always some fragrance on sale, and if the staff knew how to sell it. Disclaimer: I really do know nothing. I’m sure I would run a fragrance company into the ground in no time.

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          • scentfromabove says:
            24 March 2016 at 9:21 pm

            I beg to differ, Robin. Your knowledge and expertise of products is like no other. You should really think about one day creating your own fragrance. You know what the people want and like.

          • Robin says:
            24 March 2016 at 10:00 pm

            You are very kind, but many of the mainstream fragrances I love do not sell! I might have some idea of what perfumistas like, but there are not enough perfumistas in the world to sustain anything more than a small niche brand.

          • meredifay says:
            25 March 2016 at 6:36 am

            But you have such a fine sensibility for scent! Maybe you could get Dawn or Mandy or someone to compose a scent for you the way they do make bespoke perfumes for people, and let them market it for youas a limited edition fund raiser for something or other. I would certainly buy a “large sample” of such a product!

          • Robin says:
            25 March 2016 at 8:21 am

            You know, I bet I have no more of a fine sensibility than any of you guys, and possibly less! I’m just a busybody, LOL…but you are all very kind 🙂

  4. scentfromabove says:
    24 March 2016 at 9:23 pm

    I want to try this just because of the peony. I love peony! 🙂

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  5. cavewoman says:
    30 May 2016 at 9:41 am

    When I saw this release of Air Of Style, I did a live chat with the MAC website. I was told this is the original formula of Air Of Style (which you linked.) A few years later, the same fragrance was sold by MAC as “Monogram” – little half-ounce sprays in fluted bottles with gold caps. I never smelled the solid perfumes. If I see this at the MAC counter I will sniff and report if indeed it is the same scent. I hope so!

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    • Robin says:
      30 May 2016 at 1:05 pm

      Thanks so much!

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