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Carven Pour Elle ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 12 April 2025 Leave a Comment

Carven has introduced Carven Pour Elle, a new floral woody citrus fragrance for women…

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Carven C’est Paris! Elixir ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 5 July 2024 2 Comments

Carven has launched C’est Paris! Elixir Pour Femme and C’est Paris! Elixir Pour Homme, new flankers to 2021’s C’est Paris! Pour Femme and C’est Paris! Pour Homme respectively. The fragrances are styled as ‘an invitation to experience the excitement of the Parisian party’…

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3 from Carven ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 5 July 2024 3 Comments

Carven has launched three new fragrances in the travel-oriented Collection Carven: Paris-Angkor and Paris-Mandalay for men, and Paris-Sambava for women…

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Carven C’est Paris! La Nuit ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 10 October 2023 2 Comments

Carven has launched C’est Paris! La Nuit Pour Femme and C’est Paris! La Nuit Pour Homme, new flankers to 2021’s C’est Paris! Pour Femme and C’est Paris! Pour Homme respectively. The fragrances are styled as ‘an invitation to stroll through the streets of the capital at dusk’…

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A very beautiful fragrance

Posted by Robin on 9 June 2022 Leave a Comment

So Spinnato asked Garland’s children what kinds of fragrances she liked. Her favorite, they told him, was the French perfume Ma Griffe, which was introduced by the Parisian designer Carven in 1946.

“It’s a very beautiful fragrance but it’s very female forward,” he says. “And kind of antiquated type of smelling.”

— Perfumer Vince Spinnato on working on a Judy Garland fragrance. Read more in Judy Garland’s 100th birthday: How her children commissioned a new fragrance in her honor at Los Angeles Daily News.

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