Lancôme has launched La Nuit Trésor Musc Diamant, a new fragrance for women. La Nuit Trésor Musc Diamant is a flanker to 2015’s La Nuit Trésor (which was a flanker to 1990’s Trésor) and follows last year’s La Nuit Trésor À La Folie…
Calvin Klein Women ~ new perfume
Calvin Klein has launched Calvin Klein Women, a new fragrance. Calvin Klein Women is fronted by Saoirse Ronan and Lupita Nyong’o…
Jimmy Choo Fever ~ new perfume
Jimmy Choo will launch Jimmy Choo Fever, a new fragrance for women, in August. Jimmy Choo Fever is a flanker to the 2011 eponymous Jimmy Choo fragrance…
Cacharel Yes I Am ~ new fragrance
Cacharel will launch Yes I Am, a new fragrance for women, next week. Yes I Am is geared towards young women, features a bottle design inspired by lipstick, and will be fronted by singer-songwriter Izzy Bizu…
Trish McEvoy 100 ~ fragrance review with an aside on beauty
Weekends, I work at a shop that brings in a diverse clientele, from students and artists to society matrons and tourists. A few weeks ago, late in the afternoon when the store was quiet, a woman came in looking for Chinese lanterns. She was tall and lumpy and didn’t wear makeup. She wore a strange hat that curved around her face, a satin baseball jacket embroidered with flowers, and striped pants that had seen better days. She carried a Prada handbag worth more than my car.1
Was the woman conventionally pretty? No. But she was riveting. Besides owning her own style, she was kind and authentic. (I later discovered she’s a famous photographer. You’ve probably seen her work on album covers.2)
Why am I telling this story? Because it made me realize how banal beauty can be. Look at the covers of celebrity magazines. The actresses look almost exactly the same. Thanks to dieting, plastic surgery, stylists, and personal trainers, Hollywood is an assembly line of interchangeable starlets. Worse, a lot of women on the street spend a lot of money to to achieve this kind of banality…