Azzaro has launched Wanted Tonic and Wanted Girl Tonic, new flankers to 2016’s Wanted and 2019’s Wanted Girl respectively…
7 from 4711 ~ new fragrances
4711 has launched the Floral Collection, with three fresh florals: Rose, Jasmine and Lilac. In addition, four new fragrances kick off the landscape-inspired 4711 Acqua Colonia Intense series: Floral Fields of Ireland, Sunny Seaside of Zanzibar, Wakening Woods of Scandinavia and Pure Breeze of Himalaya…
5 perfumes: A Summer Vetiver-fest
What’s more wonderful than the scent of vetiver? Of the “Fragrance Notes I Cannot Live Without”, vetiver is in the top five. I started my vetiver love affair with one of the best vetiver colognes: vintage Guerlain Vetiver (to my nose, the contemporary version is wimpy and less vetiver-y than its old self). Other vetiver fragrances that won my heart were Etro Vetiver (discontinued), Frédéric Malle Vétiver Extraordinaire, Chanel Sycomore and Maître Parfumeur et Gantier Route du Vetiver (ummm ummmm ummmmmmm). But that list is skimpy; my vetiver beaus are too numerous to list here.
In June I ordered samples of some new(ish) vetiver perfumes, hoping that one or two might inspire lust…
Costume National J & I ~ new fragrances
Italian house Costume National has launched J and I, new fragrances intended to explore a meeting and balance between the fashion cultures of Japan and Italy…
My secret garden
A spot from a Paris event featuring IFF's last Speed Smelling set. About 7 1/2 minutes long, including brief appearances by perfumers Bruno Jovanovic, Domitille Michalon-Bertier, Delphine Lebeau, Caroline Dumur, Nicolas Beaulieu, Sophie Labbe, Anne Flipo, Juliette Karagueuzoglou, Dominique Ropion, Julien Rasquinet, Alexis Dadier, Fanny Bal, Jean-Christophe Herault and Nelly Hachem-Ruiz.