French perfume house Berdoues has introduced Violette, the first of the Fleur series in the Grand Crus collection…
Atkinsons Amber Empire, The Excelsior Bouquet & Love in Idleness ~ new fragrances
British brand Atkinsons will launch a new trio in their Legendary Collection of fragrances resurrected from their archives. Amber Empire, The Excelsior Bouquet and Love in Idleness will join previous launches The British Bouquet, The Odd Fellow’s Bouquet, Fashion Decree, 24 Old Bond Street and The Nuptial Bouquet…
Les Parfums de Rosine Ballerina No. 2 ~ new perfume
Les Parfums de Rosine has launched Ballerina No. 2, the follow-up to Ballerina No. 1. The woody floral fragrance centers on a rose and magnolia accord…
Atkinsons The British Bouquet & The Odd Fellow’s Bouquet ~ fragrance reviews
In the early Spring of 1799, James Atkinson, an enterprising young gentleman from the wilds of Cumberland, set forth by carriage for the glorious city of London. In his suit pocket were recipes for fine scents and toiletries of his own devising. Next to him sat a sizable quantity of rose-scented bear grease balm. Next to the balm sat a growl-y bear. The growl-y bear was thoroughly devoted to James. Within mere days the utterly fantastic balm became indispensable to London’s most uppity crust, who braved the bear at the door of 44 Gerrard Street (“that marvellous perfume shop with the most terrifying bear”) to procure sufficient stock for the Social Season.
After a most delightful hibernation, Atkinsons and its growl-y bear have awoken from their slumber totally refreshed and revived. Drawing on 200 years of English eccentricity, style and impeccable manners, not to mention an incomparable heritage and imperishable commitment to making the highest echelons of society as fragrant and delectable as humanly possible, we are now ready to usher in a new century of perfume snobbery. How? By means of our newest collections, our boldest and most irresistible to date. “True style,” as Beau Brummel once said, “never goes out of fashion. You simply cannot keep a good bear down.1
I can do without snobbery and the highest echelons of society, but I do love an animal story (whether it’s true or not)…
Fendi L’Acquarossa ~ perfume review
A very long time ago, March over at Perfume Posse wrote a line about perfumes that fill your head “with a deep, profound, Zen-like nothingness”, and despite the fact that I can hardly remember my own phone number these days, that line stuck in my head. I quoted it at least once, also a very long time ago, and I think of it whenever I smell a new fragrance and my only reaction is well, yes, smells like perfume.
So you can probably already see where we’re headed with Fendi’s new L’Acquarossa, aka the “red elixir of passion”. I had sort-of-middling hopes for L’Acquarossa — I do keep waiting for Fendi to do something as gorgeous as Theorema, and then put it in a bottle as lovely as Palazzo. But no, all we’ve had lately is Fan di Fendi, a fragrance that so thoroughly filled my head with a deep, profound, Zen-like nothingness that I cannot remember it at all, although I know I’ve smelled it more than once…