Italian sportswear house Iceberg has launched Burning Ice, a new fragrance for men…
Guess Seductive Sunkissed ~ new perfume
Guess will launch Seductive Sunkissed in March. The new limited edition fragrance for women is a flanker to 2010’s Guess Seductive, and is meant for ‘sexy and free’ young women…
Biotherm + Vanessa Bruno L’Eau ~ new fragrance
Biotherm will collaborate with French designer Vanessa Bruno to launch L’Eau, a new limited edition fragrance for women in Biotherm’s Eau Collection line, next month. According to Bruno, the scent gives the impression of walking in a garden early in the morning…
Laura Biagiotti Mistero di Roma Uomo, Biotherm Eau de Paradis ~ new fragrances
Laura Biagiotti will launch Mistero di Roma Uomo, a new fragrance that captures “the mysterious side of a seductive man”, in March.
Mistero di Roma Uomo features notes of grapefruit, mandarin…
Van Cleef & Arpels Oriens ~ perfume review
First things first: the name is misleading. Van Cleef & Arpels Oriens is not an oriental fragrance. This Eau de Parfum is reportedly intended to evoke “the ever-changing mystery and magic of the exotic silk route to Asia,” and it’s being billed as a “fruity floral chypre.” Created by perfumer Bernard Ellena, it features top notes of raspberry, black currant, and praline; middle notes of jasmine and fresh-cut white flowers; and a base of patchouli.
The bottle’s designer, Joël Desgrippes, modeled Oriens’ flacon after a ring design from Van Cleef & Arpels’ fine jewelry collection: an enormous tourmaline set in white gold, like a flower surrounded by diamond-studded leaves…