5 Perfumes for: Happiness & Good Cheer

Posted by Angela on 20 March 2017 105 Comments

merry go round

That’s a presumptuous title, isn’t it? Why should I know what perfume will lift your mood? I don’t, so here’s a list of five perfumes that make me happy. My criteria is that they be friendly, uplifting, and maybe a little wacky. No brooding orientals or pretentious oeuvres here. Maybe you’ll find something to perk you up, too.

Jean Patou Colony: On the top of the “happy because it’s wacky” list is Colony, a pineapple syrup-infused chypre. To me, Colony is like an elegantly dressed woman who knows how to burp on command or who does a spot-on imitation of Foghorn Leghorn — all without mussing a hair of her chignon. How can that not bring you joy? For a bohemian take on the same concept…

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Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds Night ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 6 January 2016 5 Comments

Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds Night

The Elizabeth Taylor brand has launched White Diamonds Night, a new flanker to 1991’s White Diamonds…

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I was terribly relieved that I wasn’t appalled

Posted by Robin on 9 February 2015 Leave a Comment

“They’ll have me in a spandex suit with an ‘I’ on my chest,” the actor joked, adding, “It’s musky, it’s not too dense. Honest to God, when I smelled it, I was terribly relieved that I wasn’t appalled.”

— Colin Farrell on representing Dolce & Gabbana Intenso. Read more at What Does Colin Farrell Smell Like? (And 5 More Things You Were Dying to Know About the Actor) at People, or see his commercial here, or check out our review of Elizabeth Taylor Violet Eyes, which he says he wears when he's not in Intenso.

Elizabeth Taylor Passion ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 23 July 2014 30 Comments

Elizabeth Taylor Passion

Here we have it, folks, the first celebrity fragrance: Elizabeth Taylor Passion. That’s right. In 1987, Elizabeth Taylor was the first big name, besides a couturier, to brand a perfume. And she went big. Unlike some celebrities who curiously say, “I don’t really like perfume, but I like this one” about their eponymous “clean smelling” scents, Taylor put together a glamorous whopper of a perfume.¹

Passion’s notes include gardenia, jasmine, rose, ylang ylang, lily of the valley, amber musk, patchouli, sandalwood, cedarwood, incense, and moss. In 1988, the fragrance won a FiFi as the Women’s Fragrance of the Year, Nouveau Niche (Fendi won Fragrance of the Year, Luxe).

Jan Moran in Fabulous Fragrances quotes Taylor as saying about Passion, “It has a scent of mystery, slightly effusive, kind of smoky and sweet.” As to why she named the fragrance Passion…

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