Niche line By Kilian has launched Bamboo Harmony and Water Calligraphy, the first two of a projected five fragrances in the new Asian Tales collection. Both fragrances were developed by perfumer Calice Becker…
Jennifer Lopez Glowing ~ new perfume
Jennifer Lopez will launch J Lo Glowing, her latest fragrance for women, in May. Per Ms. Lopez,
Glowing is such a clean fragrance…
By Kilian Sweet Redemption (The End) ~ fragrance review
Perfumes cling closely to your flesh
As incense to a censer; bright
And dusky nymph, you are all Night,
Secret and passionate and fresh!— Charles Baudelaire (trans. Jacques LeClercq)
This is the end / beautiful friend
— Jim Morrison
I’m sorry, but I couldn’t stop myself from using those images and quotations. What else can one do, when faced with promotional copy stating that a fragrance is “inspired on one hand by Baudelaire’s homage to sweet and deep fragrances, yet on the other hand by the dark and mysterious poetry of Jim Morrison as he seemingly forebode his own demise”? The fragrance in question is Sweet Redemption (The End), the tenth and final release in By Kilian’s L’Oeuvre Noire series. It was developed by perfumer Calice Becker and the notes for this sweet powdery woods fragrance include orange blossom, vanilla, myrrh, opopanax, benzoin and incense.
Overwrought prose aside, what do we have here? Sweet Redemption opens with a top note of orange blossom cocooned in spun sugar. It’s feminine and quite pretty, and I thought for a moment that this would turn out to be one of the simpler By Kilian compositions…
Marc Jacobs Oh, Lola! ~ brief perfume review, and a quick poll
Marc Jacobs’ new Oh, Lola! flanker launched fairly recently, and has already ended its brief exclusive-to-Bloomingdales period and is available nearly everywhere. The original Lola fragrance (2009), if you remember, was meant to be Daisy’s (2007) older sister. Oh, Lola! is supposed to be “lively and playful”, and sweeter than Lola, so I’m assuming it’s the middle sister, perhaps? It’s fronted by Dakota Fanning (see above), who is around 17, if that helps you place Oh, Lola! on the target market time line.
Oh, Lola! is exactly as advertised. They’ve toned down the floral notes in the heart and amped up the fruit notes in the opening; the base is a slightly paler version of Lola’s woody-musky trail…
Marc Jacobs Oh, Lola! ~ new fragrance
Marc Jacobs will launch Oh, Lola!, a new flanker to 2009’s Lola fragrance for women, in July. Oh, Lola! is described as lively and playful…