Italian niche brand Masque Milano has launched a new collection, Le Donne di Masque, with two fragrances, Petra and Dolceacqua…
Parfums MDCI La Surprise & L’Aimee ~ new fragrances
French niche line Parfums MDCI has launched La Surprise and L’Aimée, two new fragrances for women in the art-inspired Painters and Perfumers collection…
Jul et Mad Stairway to Heaven ~ fragrance review
Okay, just do it: sing a few lines of the Led Zeppelin song and get it out of your system. Despite what you may have expected (or hoped), Jul et Mad’s Stairway to Heaven has nothing to do with a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold, etc. It was inspired instead by a trek into Nepal’s Annapurna mountain range that turned out to be “a veritable inner quest, in search of the mysteries of life, of serenity, of absolute happiness on the Summits of the Gods…” (Then again, that does sound pretty Zeppelinesque…)
Stairway to Heaven was developed by perfumer Cécile Zarokian and promises to evoke a “dual whiteness: pure and immaculate, but warming and enveloping.” That sounds almost like Stairway could be an “Eau Chaude,” in the tradition of Jean-Claude Ellena’s L’Eau d’Hiver for Frédéric Malle…
Shay & Blue Watermelons & Parfums MDCI Bleu Satin ~ fragrance reviews
The scent and taste of watermelon screams !SUMMER! to me. As a child, cracking open a chilled watermelon was a celebratory event during steamy Virginia summers. At my urging (and purchasing, I bought the seeds), my father grew all types of watermelon varieties: classics, miniatures, ball-shaped; melons with pink, red, gold, yellow and white flesh. Watermelons originated in Africa but now are grown around the world. In Japan, the Densuke watermelon is grown in limited quantities only on Hokkaido; these rare, round watermelons with almost-black rinds sell for hundreds of dollars…or many thousands of dollars at auction (for single melons). I was surprised (given the perfume industry’s propensity for “fibs” and pretension) that today’s two watermelon-flavored perfumes didn’t list Densuke watermelon in the ingredients lists. Stay tuned!
Hoping to find a watermelon fragrance that will refresh my summer, I tried two: Shay & Blue Watermelons and Parfums MDCI Bleu Satin…
Parfums MDCI L’Homme Aux Gants, Bleu Satin & Cuir Cavalier ~ new fragrances
French niche line Parfums MDCI has launched the Masterpiece Collection, a new series of art-inspired fragrances. The first three — L’Homme Aux Gants, Bleu Satin and Cuir Cavalier — are for men…