Yves Saint Laurent will launch Black Opium in September. The new fragrance for women is a “a rock ‘n’ roll-inspired interpretation of the 1977 classic” Opium, and follows recent flankers Opium Vapeurs de Parfum and Belle de Opium…
Guess Girl Summer ~ new perfume
Guess will launch Guess Girl Summer, a new fruity floral flanker to 2013’s Guess Girl fragrance (and see also: Guess Girl Belle)…
Ralph Lauren Midnight Romance ~ new fragrance
Ralph Lauren will launch Midnight Romance, a new floriental fragrance for women, in April. Midnight Romance is a flanker to 1998’s Romance; the brand is calling it Romance’s “sexy sister” although the juice apparently is not related. Midnight Romance will be fronted by model Anna Selezneva…
Elizabeth and James Nirvana Black, Nirvana White ~ fragrance reviews & quick poll
Ashley and I are really into oils, and those were the notes we were really attracted to. — Mary-Kate Olsen, talking to Women’s Wear Daily.
Remember way back when — about 20-odd years ago in perfume years — when Sarah Jessica Parker launched Lovely, and everyone was talking about exactly which perfume oils it was based on? It was the first thing I thought of when I smelled Nirvana Black and Nirvana White, the new fragrances from Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s Elizabeth and James lifestyle brand. Lovely, it turned out, was inspired by Parker’s own layering blend of Bonne Bell Skin Musk, Comme des Garςons Avignon and some Egyptian Musk oil she bought from a street vendor, but as translated into something marketable by Coty, Lovely was far tamer and more wearable than you might have expected from the original mix.
Nirvana Black and Nirvana White come closer to walking the walk…
Elizabeth and James Nirvana White & Nirvana Black ~ new fragrances
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s Elizabeth and James brand will launch two fragrances for women, Nirvana White and Nirvana Black, in December…