Kim Kardashian (check her Wikipedia entry if, like me, you have no idea who she is) is working with perfumer Caroline Sabas (J Lo Miami Glow, Britney Spears Midnight Fantasy) on her debut fragrance. Look for it to debut in May 2009. (via officialkimkardashian, found via monstersandcritics)
Halle Berry, who as you may remember has signed with Coty for her debut fragrance, says she has been mixing her own blends at home for years…
“Vintage tattoo wear” line Ed Hardy launched their first fragrances this year. The fashion line, from designer Christian Audigier, is inspired by the tattoo designs of Don Ed Hardy, and while I found the bottle a bit less inspiring in person than it was in pictures — isn’t that usually the way? plastic always looks better in pictures — it’s still a great design. I don’t know that I’d wear a hoodie with the “Love Kills Slowly” skull and the “Life Love Luck” trail of roses, but on a perfume bottle it’s fun, and it makes a nice change from the dreary parade of cookie-cutter bottles on display at Macy’s.
The fragrance itself promised more fun. It was described as “super vibrant and sexy”, and “vintage floralcy with a Rock’n Roll Edge” and a “dark eeriness”. Anyone who reads here regularly already knows where this is going, right? If you want a strawberry-laced fruity floral this year, you’ve plenty of choice, and Ed Hardy will probably suit as well as anything else, but if you’re looking for super vibrant, sexy, edgy or eerie, you’ll have to look elsewhere…
Coming next February, debut fragrances from “vintage tattoo wear” line Ed Hardy.
Ed Hardy by Christian Audigier for women (shown) is a fruity floral with notes of apple soufflé, mango, wild strawberry, rudy red grapefruit, freesia petals, watery muguet, linden blossom, warm amber, musk, tonka bean and vanilla pudding. The Eau de Parfum will be available in 50 and 100 ml…
Stetson will launch a second fragrance fronted by country music star Shania Twain this September. Shania Starlight by Stetson follows 2005’s Shania by Stetson, and is intended to “show off a different side of Twain…aiming for a more feminine scent not so closely associated with country music”.
Developed by Givaudan’s Caroline Sabas, the fragrance is described as a “fruity floral” with top notes of mandarin and lemon, apple blossom and white freesia; a heart of star magnolia, dewy gardenia, night blooming jasmine and musk, and a drydown of creamy sandalwood, cashmere woods, sugi wood, tonka and amber…
Midnight Fantasy is the fourth and latest fragrance release from Britney Spears, and is meant as the sexy, late night (“a mysterious realm of temptation and intrigue”) follow-up to 2005’s Fantasy. It was created by perfumer Caroline Sabas, and the notes include black cherries, framboise, plum, orchid, freesia, iris, musk, amber and vanilla. The bottle (see it here) is the same as Fantasy’s, done up in dark blue.
If you were expecting a darker, warmer take on Fantasy’s medley of cupcake and sweet fruits, Midnight Fantasy may come as something of a surprise…