Nina Ricci has launched L’Air du Temps Collection Lumière, with three limited edition fragrances. L’Air du Temps L’Aube (above left) and L’Air du Temps Le Crépuscule (above right) are flankers to 1948’s L’Air du Temps; both were developed by perfumer Calice Becker. L’Air du Temps Le Zénith (above center) is the original fragrance in a collector bottle…
The Ralph Lauren Fragrance Collection ~ new fragrances
Ralph Lauren will launch The Ralph Lauren Collection Fragrances, with 10 unisex fragrances “positioned around the opulent experience of travel”. There are two fragrances each for five destinations: Riviera Dream, Legacy of English Elegance, Song of America, Portrait of New York and Treasures of Safari…
By Kilian Moonlight in Heaven ~ new fragrance
French niche line By Kilian will launch Moonlight in Heaven in April…
Christian Dior J’Adore ~ fragrance review
Business hotels aren’t designed to inspire passion. They’re efficient and bland. They mean to please without offending. Their restaurants are equally uninspiring, with menus full of chicken caesar salads and farmed salmon filets. The hospitality punches in at the time clock inside the basement service entrance. But, boy, do they turn rooms.
You know where I’m going with this. To me, today’s Christian Dior J’Adore gives the same feeling as a middle-tier business hotel. It does a perfume’s job of smelling pretty and clean, but comes off as oddly soulless. Yet, it sells like gangbusters…
Tom Ford Velvet Orchid ~ fragrance review
The old saying has it that “everything old is new again.” Tom Ford Velvet Orchid, a salute to the grand oriental perfumes of the 1980s, seems to have taken that saying to heart. Lovers of Yves Saint Laurent Opium, Estée Lauder Cinnabar, Boucheron de Boucheron, and other room-permeating, spicy-woody-ambery fragrances will want to give it a try. Fans of Velvet Orchid’s older sibling, Black Orchid, will probably see no reason to switch.
Velvet Orchid’s notes include bergamot, mandarin, honey, vanilla, orange blossom, rose, jasmine, narcissus, magnolia, Cattleya leopoldii orchid, heliotrope, rum, suede, labdanum, sandalwood, and myrrh — not that any of these notes stand out distinctly. Even without the gorgeous deco bottle and “orchid” in its name, a single whiff ties Velvet Orchid to Black Orchid.
Although Velvet Orchid has the guts to take the ring with any of the big orientals, it’s billed as a floriental fragrance…