Hermès has launched Jour d’Hermès, a new fragrance for women…
Cartier Declaration Three Ways: Eau de Toilette, Essence and Cologne ~ fragrance reviews
I remember smelling Cartier Déclaration when it was released almost 15 years ago. I didn’t like it one bit: “too dirty.” What smelled “unclean” to my nose back in 1998, today smells almost fresh, and not because of reformulation, but because so many of my perfume dislikes turned to likes over the years.
I must have been in the minority back in 1998 when Déclaration Eau de Toilette was released because it’s been successful and spawned flanker after flanker. At this moment, there are four Déclaration formulas for sale.
Original Déclaration Eau de Toilette
Original Déclaration Eau de Toilette was developed by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena and includes notes of birch, bergamot, bitter orange, juniper, artemisia, cardamom, cedar, vetiver and oakmoss. Déclaration Eau de Toilette goes on strong with bitter orange…
Hermes L’Ambre des Merveilles ~ fragrance review
Flankers are much maligned by perfumistas, here as much as anywhere else. At their worst, they’re endless — and often, mindless — series of minor variations on perfumes that weren’t all that interesting to begin with. There are flankers of flankers, and flankers of flankers of flankers. There are good flankers and bad flankers, flankers I hope never get made (anything having to do with Diorissimo, thank you) and flankers I can’t believe ever were made. There are flankers that outsell the original pillar fragrance, flankers that eventually elbow the pillar aside, and flankers that just can’t hope to best their elders. Flankers do well, of course, but they’re annoying, not least because there are just so very many of them.
In theory, of course, it’s not a bad idea: take a beloved fragrance, and explore some facet of its composition in more depth. And sometimes that works. There are flankers that I like better than the pillar fragrance…
Hermes L’Ambre des Merveilles ~ new fragrance
Hermès will launch L’Ambre des Merveilles in September. The new fragrance for women is a flanker to 2004’s Eau des Merveilles, and follows Elixir des Merveilles (2006) and Eau Claire des Merveilles (2010)…
The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Perfumer by Jean-Claude Ellena
Jean-Claude Ellena’s The Diary of a Nose: A Year in the Life of a Perfumer will be published in English this July. The book originally appeared in French in 2011 as Journal d’un parfumeur (see Cheryl’s review)…