French jeweler Mauboussin will launch two new fragrances for women, à la Folie and Lovely à la Folie, this month. Both fragrances were developed by perfumers Delphine Lebeau and Benoist Lapouza…
Fendi L’Acquarossa ~ new fragrance
Fendi will launch L’Acquarossa, a new fragrance for women, in September. L’Acquarossa is a tribute to Rome, and is aimed at an older consumer than 2010’s Fan di Fendi…
Fendi Fan di Fendi Pour Homme Acqua ~ new fragrance
Fendi has launched Fan di Fendi Pour Homme Acqua, a new flanker to last year’s Fan di Fendi Pour Homme…
Fan di Fendi Pour Homme ~ fragrance review
I’ve never been a fan of Fendi; the Fendi sisters and their fur-centered business were turn-offs so I never wore Fendi perfumes, though I appreciated some of them from afar — “original” Fendi (discontinued), Fendi Uomo (discontinued) and Theorema (also discontinued; does Fendi get easily bored with its own perfumes or don’t the fragrances sell?) Fendi recently launched Fan di Fendi Pour Homme, a woody-aromatic fragrance,* and I nabbed a couple sample vials for testing.
Fan di Fendi Pour Homme opens with a strong, syrupy accord of pepper and citrus; the “syrup” is quickly diluted with smooth (non-assertive) cardamom, sweet geranium leaf, and, perhaps, a ‘fresh’ element (a stealth smidgen of ozone? tart “rose hips”?) Fan di Fendi Pour Homme’s opening is my favorite phase of the perfume…
Fendi Fan di Fendi Pour Homme ~ new fragrance
Fendi will launch Fan di Fendi Pour Homme, a new woody aromatic fragrance, in September. Fan di Fendi Pour Homme is the masculine counterpart to 2010’s Fan di Fendi…