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…
Trish McEvoy 100 ~ new fragrance
Calvin Klein Deep Euphoria ~ fragrance review
I really don’t consider myself a perfume snob. Yes, I do favor quite a few fancy niche fragrances, but my tastes still run the gamut. Case in point: I’ve loved Calvin Klein Euphoria ever since its launch in 2005. I remember making a visit to Lord & Taylor during a lunch break, spraying some Euphoria on my arm, and swooning in delight. I couldn’t wait to describe my reaction on MakeupAlley that evening: “Oh my! I felt as though I’d been kissed.”
So now, more than a decade later, we have the latest Euphoria flanker: Deep Euphoria, described as a floral chypre with a “signature of sensuality and modern femininity” and “a smooth, sensual texture.” (Whatever that means.) …