Kylie Minogue will launch Inverse, her first fragrance for men, in August. The new scent is for “all facets of a man…day or night” and the tag line is “Two facets. One scent”. The fragrance is fronted by model Andrés Velencoso Segura; you can see the video promo for Inverse here.
Inverse features notes of lavender…
Paco Rabanne 1 Million debuted last August in Europe, but it’s never “officially” launched in the U.S. (though it can be purchased at online discounters here). 1 Million was developed by perfumers Christophe Raynaud, Olivier Pescheux and Michel Girard, and it contains grapefruit, blood orange, peppermint, rose, cinnamon, “spice,” blond leather, white woods, amberketal (synthetic ambergris) and patchouli. It’s difficult to review 1 Million because the fragrance is so well blended. Imagine painting precise squares of color (cool purple, faded pink, creamy green and sunny yellow) side by side onto a white canvas using acrylic pigments, then taking a wet brush and running it thru the middle of all the squares — blurring all the colors with one strong sweep of the brush. The resulting image of this rapid “mixing” is like 1 Million: gray (indistinct) in the center but with traces of residual color (individual notes) around the edges.
1 Million smells like “sugar and spice” with a touch of lavender-orange blossom and vanillic amber. It also smells like an upscale (slightly retro) barbershop…
Joop! will introduce Joop! Thrill, a new duo of fragrances for men and women, this coming February. The scents aim to capture the excitement of an urban adventure by night.
Joop! Thrill Woman was developed by perfumer Alexandra Kosinski, and features fresh dew, peach, lily, mimosa, iris, vanilla, tonka bean and sandalwood. It will be available in 30, 50 and 75 ml Eau de Parfum and in matching body products…
Coming from Pucci next March will be Vivara Variazioni, a trio of new flankers to last year's Vivara fragrance for women. The three fragrances are meant to represent sea, sand and sky, but the scents themselves are intended to be seasonless.
Vivara Acqua 330 ~ in blue, with violet, jasmine, frangipani and musk…
Jesús Del Pozo has launched Halloween Kiss, a new flanker fragrance to 1997's Halloween. Halloween Kiss is meant to be a sexier, more seductive scent, and to evoke an urban atmosphere at night: neon, music, noise.
Halloween Kiss was developed by perfumer Christophe Raynaud, and the fruity oriental gourmand includes notes of orange, pear, red fruits…