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Maison Margiela Mutiny ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 29 March 2019 8 Comments

How much does a fragrance’s “back story” matter to you? I occasionally try to ignore the promotional copy and just smell a new perfume, just experience it on its own terms, but over and over again I fail in that resolution. I love storytelling. I love visuals. I want to know why people create the things they create. Sometimes a description or advertisement for a particular fragrance resonates with me; more often, it causes me to roll my eyes. I had both reactions to the promotional messaging for Mutiny, the new women’s fragrance from Maison Margiela.

Mutiny was developed by perfumer Dominique Ropion and its tagline is “Assert your self-expression. Banish conformity. Break the rules.” In a short promotional video for Mutiny, Ropion mentions being impressed by Galliano’s “audacity to subvert, deconstruct and rebuild” traditional clothing forms and wanting to do the same thing with tuberose…

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John Galliano Before Midnight ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 5 April 2013 6 Comments

John Galliano Before Midnight

John Galliano will launch Before Midnight, the brand’s debut fragrance for men…

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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2013, part 3

Posted by Robin on 13 February 2013 16 Comments

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.

Salvatore Ferragamo Signorina solid perfume

From Salvatore Ferragamo, a solid perfume compact in the Signorina fragrance…

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John Galliano Parlez-Moi d’Amour Gold Edition ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 5 November 2012 16 Comments

John Galliano Parlez-Moi d'Amour Gold Edition

John Galliano has launched Parlez-Moi d’Amour Gold Edition, a new fragrance for women. Parlez-Moi d’Amour Gold Edition is a flanker to 2010′s Parlez-Moi d’Amour, and follows the recently launched Parlez-Moi d’Amour Encore…

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John Galliano Parlez-moi d’Amour Encore ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 9 August 2012 21 Comments

John Galliano Parlez-moi d’Amour Encore

John Galliano will launch Parlez-Moi d’Amour Encore, a new fragrance for women, this fall. Parlez-Moi d’Amour Encore is a flanker to 2010’s Parlez-Moi d’Amour…

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