More limited edition collector fragrance bottles for holiday 2007 (if you missed the first post, see Bunch o' limited edition collector bottles):
At Nordstrom, Missoni's Acqua, “dressed in colorful Missoni fringe”. 100 ml Eau de Toilette for $85…
Yves Saint Laurent to launch Elle in Second Life
Yves Saint Laurent will launch their latest fragrance for women, Elle Yves Saint Laurent, in Second Life on October 1 at 8 pm. You can watch a brief teaser of the installation, which will be dedicated to art in Second Life, at ysl-elle….
Covet has that vibe…
"I really like vanilla perfumes -- Covet has that vibe -- but couldn't wear them when I was engaged," she says. "I just broke up with my fiance. He didn't like me wearing Angel by Thierry Mugler, so I may go back to that." She touches up her pink lipstick in the mirror. "He was so controlling."
"This smells like ... you know when you work out all day and have that really bad scent? Not exactly that, but maybe something more pungent."
— Suzanne on Sarah Jessica Parker Covet and Joe on Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male, respectively, from What It Takes To Drive Them Wild, an article in The National Post in which reporters plant themselves in the rest rooms of a Toronto nightclub and ask random passersby to test perfumes.
Jean Paul Gaultier Classique ~ perfume review
Jean Paul Gaultier, long known as the enfant terrible of French fashion for his irreverent approach to design — “I like to show that there is no frontier between good taste and bad taste”, he told The Independent last year — launched his first fragrance in 1993. Originally known as Jean Paul Gaultier, it was later renamed Classique to distinguish it from the scents that followed. Classique was developed by perfumer Jacques Cavallier, and the notes for the musky floriental include bergamot, orange blossom, rose, mandarin, aniseed, carnation, orchid, iris, ylang ylang, ginger, vanilla, wood, amber and musk.
Gaultier was already a household name by the time Classique launched, having gained considerable media attention for the costumes he designed for Madonna’s 1990 Blonde Ambition tour (including the “lethal conical bra designed to damage a retina at 10 paces“). It was not to be expected that his debut scent would be dull, and Gaultier’s inspirations sounded appropriately zany…
Jean Paul Gaultier Fleur du Male ~ fragrance review
Reader, have you at times inhaled
With rapture and slow greediness,
That grain of incense which pervades a church,
Or the inveterate musk of a sachet?*
…asks Charles Baudelaire in his poem Un Fantôme. Knowing NowSmellThis readers, I’m sure the answer is a resounding “Yes!”
The name of Jean Paul Gaultier’s new men’s fragrance Fleur du Mâle (Flower of the Male) was inspired by the title of Baudelaire’s collection of poems — Les fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil). I don’t know if Gaultier’s research team studied the poems (or simply loved the title) but Les fleurs du mal is full of poems that acknowledge the power of scent, of perfumes, in this world. For Baudelaire, aromas inspire exultation, lust, creation (the poems themselves), happy and sad memories. One of my favorite passages is from the poem Le Flacon (The Perfume Flask):
There are strong perfumes for which all matter
Is porous. One would say they go through glass.
On opening a coffer that has come from the East,
Whose creaking lock resists and grates,
Or in a deserted house, some cabinet
Full of the Past’s acrid odor, dusty and black,
Sometimes one finds an antique phial which remembers,
Whence gushes forth a living soul returned to life.
The debut of Jean Paul Gaultier’s Fleur du Mâle has been accompanied not only by references to poetry but by much talk (dare I say ‘mumbo jumbo’?) concerning the state of men’s lives in 2007…