Next up from Comme des Garçons will be Wonderwood, due to launch in late June:
An evocation of exuberance…
Comme des Garcons + Daphne Guinness Daphne ~ fragrance review
For me this will be the winter of Comme des Garçons Daphne Eau de Parfum. Within half an hour of a dab from a sample tube, I was at my computer ordering a bottle, budget be damned. Its warmth, complexity, and femme fatale vibe were irresistible. At the same time, I think hordes of perfume enthusiasts will detest Daphne. Its sweet thickness might drive comparisons to marshmallow fluff and talcum powder. But I’m smitten.
Perfumer Antoine Lie created Daphne using notes of bitter orange, incense, saffron, rose centifolia, Tunisian jasmine, tuberose, iris, patchouli, oud, amber, and vanilla. Essentially, Daphne is an oriental scent featuring tuberose with all the baroque fixings. It’s named for Daphne Guinness, a British celebrity who seems to have earned her fame mainly through eccentric chic and a prominent family.
Daphne opens with bitter orange and tuberose…
Comme des Garcons + Daphne Guinness Daphne ~ new fragrance
Socialite, heiress and fashion icon (she has been described as the best dressed woman in the world) Daphne Guinness will launch Daphne, her debut fragrance, in September. The scent was made in collaboration with Comme des Garçons. Guinness noted that perfume “…takes you away from the everyday and you are transported to something in your past. It’s a very mysterious thing…”
Zegna Colonia by Ermenegildo Zegna ~ new fragrance
Ermenegildo Zegna has launched Zegna Colonia, the line’s latest fragrance for men:
With Zegna Colonia, the brand unveils its personal vision of ‘la Dolce Vita’. A parenthesis of peaceful happiness bathed in the warm embrace of the Italian sun. A snapshot of an elegant silhouette and the entrancing eyes of a man dressed in white linen, captured in the space of an instant…
Salvador Dali Black Sun Sport, Victorinox Swiss Army Swiss Unlimited ~ new fragrances
Salvador Dali will launch Black Sun Sport, a flanker to 2007's Black Sun for men. Like Black Sun, Black Sun Sport was developed by perfumer Antoine Lie, and the new scent is “designed to accompany the modern man in his active, sporting life”.
The woody citrus fragrance features notes of yuzu, nutmeg, geranium, cedar, amber and musk…