More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
At Nordstrom, Prada Homme (above left) in a limited edition silver metallic bottle, “for customers who are demanding even more unique versions of the core Prada Parfums products”. $57 for 75 ml…
Following up on last week’s review of Jean-Charles Brosseau’s Thé Brun, today I’ll be reviewing Fruit de Bois, another of the fragrances in the Collection Homme released by Brosseau last year. With notes of bergamot, grapefruit, sage, geranium, nutmeg, vetiver, cedar, sandalwood, juniper and amber, this one could easily have been mistaken for a Serge Lutens.
The bois in question here, and clearly the star of this show, is cedar…
Jean-Charles Brosseau, milliner and creator of 1981’s still popular Ombre Rose, has recently released a trio of men’s fragrances: Thé Brun, Atlas Cedar and Fruit de Bois. Of the three, the one I was most anticipating is Thé Brun or Brown Tea, created with perfumer Pierre Bourdon. Thé Brun has notes of bergamot, fruity notes, green leaves, lavender, violet, spices, cumin, jasmine, orange blossom, lapsang tea, palisander wood, powdery notes and musk.
As a huge fan of tea fragrances, it was with great excitement that I tested Thé Brun, and I definitely wasn’t disappointed…
La Perla has launched Charme (shown above left) in Italy, and will expand distribution to other countries in February of next year. The ambery floral fragrance was created by perfumer Alberto Morillas…