Azzaro has updated their first fragrance release, 1975's Azzaro Couture for women, and will relaunch it this coming October. Vanessa Seward, Azzaro's artistic director, noted that “Couture was one of Loris Azzaro’s favourite fragrances and I really wanted to work on it as a homage to him”.
The new juice was developed by perfumer Aurélien Guichard…
Bond no. 9’s Andy Warhol Silver Factory is the first in a projected series of unisex fragrances created under an agreement with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The (perfect! I want one!) bottle design for Silver Factory was inspired by Warhol’s 1965 series of Campbell Soup Can silkscreens, and the scent was named for Warhol’s Manhattan studio, The Silver Factory, where the walls were decorated with aluminum foil and spray paint. Andy Warhol was said to be fond of perfume — he was reportedly buried with a bottle of Estee Lauder Beautiful — and there was until fairly recently an Andy Warhol branded line of fragrances (see a print ad here) under Cofinluxe.
I never smelled any of the earlier Andy Warhol scents (please comment if you did!) but perfumer Aurelien Guichard has done a great job of creating something that might reasonably evoke the experimental pop culture atmosphere of the late 1960s while still smelling very much like a modern niche perfume. Silver Factory opens on citrus and lavender, lively, but still more soft than sharp (the complete notes: bergamot, grapefruit, lavender, violet, incense, jasmine, iris, amber, wood resin and cedar). The incense and woods are present from the start…
I’m not good at making “best of” lists. As soon as I put one thing on a list, I remember something else I should have included, and narrowing down is not an easy task (I’ve been working on a post called “100 Fragrances Every Perfumista Should Try” for over six months now). But Comme des Garçons would surely make a list of my favorite perfume houses, and when they release something new, I want to smell it.
Play, their latest release, looked promising. The concept for the Play line of clothing, introduced in 2003, is supposed to be “design by not designing”, a good fit with the subversive ethos of the brand, and the logo on the Play fragrance bottle, designed by Filip Pagowski, is appropriately simple but fun.
The Play fragrance itself was developed by perfumer Aurelien Guichard, another good sign. The notes — bitter orange, black pepper, lime, saffron, thyme, sage, sea notes, oak moss, patchouli and musk — didn’t sound particularly unusual (or playful), but that doesn’t mean much…
In what is turning out to be a very good year for reissues (are you listening, Dior? get with the program!), Robert Piguet is planning to reintroduce two fragrances from their back catalog this fall, Visa for women and Cravache for men.
Visa was originally developed by perfumer Germaine Cellier, and launched in 1945 (after Bandit but before Fracas). The new version of the “classic oriental” was created by perfumer Aurelien Guichard…
Bond no. 9 has signed an agreement with The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to develop a line of unisex fragrances under the Andy Warhol name. The first of the set is Andy Warhol Silver Factory, due for launch in December and…
…inspired by Warhol’s original working studio in the Sixties…