Elie Saab will launch Elie Saab Le Parfum Resort Collection, a new flanker to the brand’s debut fragrance, 2011’s Elie Saab Le Parfum. The limited edition scent was inspired by the Elie Saab spring/summer 2015 fashion collection.
Rouge 540
A short video for the new Baccarat Rouge 540 fragrance, including a brief appearance by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian A la Rose ~ new fragrance
Maison Francis Kurkdjian has launched À la Rose, a new fragrance for women. The fragrance was inspired by Marie Antoinette’s love of roses, and the painting Marie-Antoinette à la Rose by Louise Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun…
Baccarat Rouge 540 ~ new fragrance
Baccarat will launch Rouge 540, a new limited edition perfume celebrating the brand’s 250th anniversary. The ‘540’ refers to the temperature required to reach the red color of Baccarat crystal…
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Pluriel Masculin ~ fragrance review
Most fougère fragrances are overtly manly and smell old fashioned to contemporary “noses.” When I smell a classic fougère, I think of a well-off/well-fed, outdoorsy, conservatively dressed and groomed man of a certain age, who, when not traipsing through wet woods hunting or hiking, holds court in a plaid-rich den (in a log cabin if resources allow) with one hand clutching a whiskey and the other resting on the forehead of a happy Labrador retriever. Let’s call this guy Traditional. The only fougère perfume I truly loved is extinct: Houbigant Fougère Royale (I don’t much care for the reissue) — it conjured the outdoors, but was dry and buoyant, not soggy.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian just released a new fougère fragrance, Pluriel Masculin: a man can be “one and many things at the same time” sayeth Kurkdjian…