Le Labo has launched Benjoin 19, the new city-exclusive fragrance for Moscow. The scent was inspired by the moment in Tolstoy’s novel when Anna Karenina first saw Count Vronsky at the railway station in Moscow…
Le Labo Ylang 49 ~ fragrance review
Ask me what I think of new fragrances these days, and prepare for a rant. “What happened to real perfume?” I’ll moan. “People used to appreciate smart fragrances. Perfume could be abstract and complex.” At that point I’ll drop my head and stare forlornly in the distance, trying my best to telegraph visions of forgotten Lanvins and Millots.
Thank goodness I’m so often wrong. For all the old beauties that have fallen out of production, gorgeous new perfumes are still being created. Le Labo Ylang 49 is real perfume.
Perfumer Frank Voelkl created Ylang 49. It has notes of ylang ylang, Pua Noa Noa,1 patchouli, oakmoss, sandalwood and benzoin. What Ylang 49 doesn’t smell like is an ylang ylang soliflore. The caramelized cold cream aroma of ylang ylang plays only a supporting role. What Ylang 49 does smell like is an honest-to-goodness floral chypre…
Le Labo Ylang 49 & Lys 41 ~ new fragrances
Le Labo will launch Ylang 49 and Lys 41, two new floral perfumes, in June…
Oscar de la Renta Something Blue & Kate Spade Live Colorfully ~ fragrance reviews, plus a quick poll
Either I am feeling extra jaded lately (a very distinct possibility) or there are even more frogs* than usual crowding the department store perfume counters this spring. Today, I’ve got quick reviews of two recent mainstream fragrances (Oscar de la Renta Something Blue and Kate Spade Live Colorfully), but as neither is likely to set perfumanity on fire, I’ll go ahead and put my quick poll question at the start: have you smelled any really great new mainstream scents this year? Do tell. If you can’t think of any, go ahead and tell us about a new fragrance that’s just comically bad.
Oscar de la Renta Something Blue
Something Blue is Oscar de la Renta’s bridal-inspired fragrance for spring 2013 — the tag line is ‘from this day forward’ and the bottle includes a removable ring — and as you’d expect, it’s a romantic floral. The opening focuses on one of my favorite floral notes, linden blossom, with accents of lily of the valley and stephanotis as it moves into the dry down…
Oscar de la Renta Something Blue ~ new perfume
Oscar de la Renta has launched Something Blue, a new bridal-inspired fragrance…