Carven will launch Carven L’Eau Intense, a new fragrance for men, in February…
Carven L’Absolu ~ new fragrance
Carven has launched Carven L’Absolu, a new fragrance for women. Carven L’Absolu is a followup to 2013’s Carven Le Parfum and 2014’s Carven L’Eau de Toilette…
Carven Vetiver ~ fragrance review & a quick poll
If there were ever to be a Perfumista Parade in Paris and Now Smell This were invited to attend, I visualize our long float thus:
Front — Angie, dressed in Ziegfield showgirl style, wearing a feather headdress in the shape of a classic Shalimar parfum bottle, wafting aldehydes and oak moss for blocks, her area adorned with sparkling, large-scale vintage perfume bottles…
Madame Carven Dies
Carmen de Tommaso, better known as Madame Carven, died yesterday at the age of 105. You can find tributes at The Telegraph, Le Figaro (in French), and Hollywood Reporter. From Women's Wear Daily:
In 1954, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris, she dropped samples of her fragrance Ma Griffe tied to small green-and-white striped parachutes over the French capital. Carven went on to launch several perfumes, including Eau Vive and Vétiver, the latter inspired by her husband Philippe Mallet.
Carven Pour Homme ~ fragrance review
Carven Pour Homme1 is instantly recognizable as a contemporary men’s fragrance, but it’s much nicer than your average masculine mainstream perfume. Imagine a friend who always dresses like a slob. One day, you see a figure approaching who looks familiar but…different. It’s your friend! But in beautifully tailored clothes, and he’s sporting a great new haircut to boot. Such is the Carven Pour Homme effect.
Carven Pour Homme is a violet leaf scent. We often smell violet leaf in perfumes in loutish guise: loud-mouthed, obnoxious, ordinaire. Carven Pour Homme presents violet leaf made chic…