From Diptyque’s Holiday 2009 collection, the (gorgeous) Benjoin candle: “Its smokey note of benzoin gives off a mysterious yet warm and cozy aroma.” The design is inspired by wycinanki, the Polish folk art paper cutouts. $65 for 190g at Aedes…
Benefit Laugh With Me Lee Lee, Something About Sofia & My Place or Yours Gina ~ fragrance reviews
Laugh With Me Lee Lee, Something About Sofia and My Place or Yours Gina make up Benefit’s new Crescent Row fragrance trio. They’re a perfect fit with Benefit’s kitschy / humorous aesthetic: they’ve got silly names, adorable cocktail-shaker inspired bottles, and outer boxes that look like row houses and fold open to show the home interior (see below; the scents were reportedly inspired by a row of Georgian townhouses in Bath, England). Benefit has wisely packaged them in small sizes (30 ml) at a reasonable price ($36). Benefit doesn’t have the pull of Gwen Stefani and these aren’t nearly as cute as the Harajuku Lovers dolls (and I’d guess they’re geared to a slightly older audience), but still, I should think the same logic applies: everything about the project is so likable that so long as the scents themselves aren’t repulsive, it’s hard to see why they shouldn’t succeed.
Laugh With Me Lee Lee is the lightweight of the bunch, and I’d guess it will be the biggest seller. It’s designated as a “fun and feminine woody floral” but wears like your basic young fruity floral…
Benefit Laugh With Me Lee Lee, Something About Sofia and My Place or Yours Gina ~ new fragrances
Benefit will launch a new trio of fragrances for women, Crescent Row, this coming July:
Inspired by a trip Jean’s [Jean Ford, Benefit’s co-founder] daughters took to a row of Georgian townhouses in Bath, England, called The Royal Crescent…
Benefit B Spot ~ new perfume
Benefit will introduce a new fragrance, B Spot, this summer. It will be the cosmetic line's second scent (Maybe Baby launched in 2003).
Erogenous zones are brought into play when Benefit launches its new fragrance, b spot. Aiming to awaken “seductive pulse points” the scent is a light, fruity, floral mixture of freesia, mango, blackcurrent [sic] and tangerine mixed with white orchid and amber…