Lancôme will launch Hypnôse this fall in Europe, early 2006 in the US:
The aim of the launch is to match the success of that of Trésor and Magie, our biggest fragrances,” Lancôme’s international marketing manager Chiara Allegri tells Cosmeticnews.com…
David Beckham’s new fragrance, Instinct, will debut in Europe in September, in the US in 2006:
Instinct’s feugere [sic] juice was concocted by International Flavors and Fragrances’ Alain Astori and Beatrice Piquet. Its top notes include Italian bergamot, orange and mandarin. At its heart are star anise, cardamom and red pimento notes…
It is finally warming up here today, so I am breaking out the summer fragrances. Ô de Lancôme was created by perfumer Robert Gonnon and introduced in 1969, and reformulated in 1994. It is a classic Eau Fraîche, with notes of mandarin, lemon, bergamot, jasmine, rosemary, basil, honeysuckle, sandalwood, vetiver, and oakmoss.
Ô de Lancôme is classified as a fresh citrus chypre. The top notes are very sharp citrus, with a diffusive quality that makes me suspect that there is a touch of aldehydes. It calms to a crisp, leafy-green citrus with herbal notes and quite a bit of oakmoss. It gets a bit darker and woodier as it dries down…
La Collection Lancôme is coming soon from Lancôme, and will include four reissued fragrances from their back catalog:
…Magie, a floral amber composed in 1950; Sikkim, a floral oriental created in 1971; and Climat, a green floral from 1967…
Parfums Morgan has launched Love Love de Toi, a fruity floral fragrance created by nose Dorothée Piot.
Morgan Love Love de Toi “shares the same base notes of musk and spicy morello cherry as the original Morgan de Toi fragrance”; additional notes include rose, mandarin, raspberry, green apple, lily of the valley…