Mariah Carey will launch Lollipop Splash the Remix in July. The new fragrances — Inseparable, Never Forget You and Vision of Love — are flankers to last year’s Lollipop Bling trio…
Elizabeth Arden Pretty Hot ~ new perfume
Elizabeth Arden will launch Pretty Hot in January. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 2009’s Pretty, and is meant to be a bold and seductive scent…
Miss Pucci, Peace Love & Juicy Couture, Kate Spade Twirl ~ brief perfume reviews
It was a long and eventful summer, and I have fallen terribly behind on reviews. In the interest of saving time and catching up and all that, here are brief reviews on three scents that are nice enough but that did not interest me enough to write longer reviews anyway. How’s that for an enticing lead in?
Miss Pucci by Pucci
A light sparkling floral musk from the folks at Pucci. It is pretty, clean, safe, and geared towards a young audience (that is, an audience that likes their florals pretty, clean and safe). Like its predecessor, Vivara, it lacks the verve and punch of the fashion line, but hey, that’s true of nearly every designer perfume ever made…
Kate Spade Twirl ~ new perfume
Kate Spade will launch Kate Spade Twirl, a new fragrance for women and the brand’s first scent under licensing arrangements with Elizabeth Arden, in September. Twirl is meant to be “equally at ease at an afternoon lawn party or a night on the town”…
Kim Kardashian by Kim Kardashian ~ perfume review
Kim Kardashian, in case you didn’t know, is a “TV star, entrepreneur, model, actress, and trendsetter”, in addition to being “one of the world’s most idolized women”. So says Sephora, where Kardashian’s eponymous debut fragrance recently launched and is reportedly a top seller.
Kardashian said she wanted “something rich and creamy and sexy, but still youthful”;1 what she got was a big white floral, very similar to the recent Mariah Carey Forever, which of course was very similar to Marc Jacobs for women. Kardashian’s effort, developed by perfumer Claude Dir, is lusher than Forever, and heavier on the tuberose…