Fashion chain Bebe will launch an eponymous fragrance for women later this month. Two prior fragrances under the Bebe name are no longer in production.
Bebe Eau de Parfum is an oriental developed by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian; notes feature mango, sweet pea, leafy tuberose, black jasmine, night blooming rose, sandalwood…
Kenzo will launch Eau de Fleur de Prunier (Plum), the fourth fragrance in the Eaux de Fleur collection, in July. The Eau de Fleur scents focus on floral notes from Japanese trees.
Eau de Fleur de Prunier was developed by perfumer Francis Kurkdjian (who also worked on Eau de Fleur de Magnolia), and is described as a powdery almond floral…
Six contenders for those warm summer days when a serious perfume just won’t do: Lostmarc’h Lann Ael, ElizabethW Sweet Tea, Comme des Garçons Soda, Gap Grass, Demeter Pruning Shears & Demeter Beetroot.
Lostmarc’h Lann Ael ~ Gourmand-lovers looking for something edible that won’t overwhelm in the summer heat might want to check out Lann Ael from the niche line Lostmarc’h. It is most decidedly not my sort of thing, but something about it makes me smile. If the notes (buckwheat, cereals, milk, apple, vanilla) sound like breakfast, you’re on the right track: this is a dead ringer for my son’s favorite maybe-more-dessert-than-breakfast cereal: Cookie Crisp. It starts out airy and light, with crisp apple (thankfully or not, depending on your point of view, the apple doesn’t last), calms into a mild blend of sweet cereal grains and cookie dough, and eventually finishes off as a light, creamy vanilla…
Next, Kurkdjian schedules a face-to-face meeting, to which he brings his traveling lab--a 45-pound, green leather steamer trunk of ingredients, from rose and jasmine oils to cloves and ambergris (rare sperm whale secretion). In all, Kurkdjian uses some 1,200 substances to whip up his scents. Prices range from $9 a pound for lavender oil to $10,500 a pound for ambergris.
— From What A Nose at Forbes, an article about perfumer Francis Kurkdjian's bespoke fragrance business. Many thanks to Anna for the link!
It’s easy for me to bemoan the destruction of such legendary perfumes as Worth Je Reviens and Carven Ma Griffe, and to be suspicious of the reformulations of other perfume darlings, like Guerlain Mitsouko. Everywhere I turn, I hear something else alarming: that the Caron reformulations are a travesty and my beloved Tabac Blond will never be the same, or that Jean Patou 1000 may be discontinued. (I can’t speak to either of these, by the way.)
Then along comes a fragrance like Parfums MDCI Enlèvement au Sérail to remind me to chill out…