A bunch of recent perfume commercials. First up, Narciso Rodriguez for the 10th anniversary of Narciso Rodriguez For Her. Below the jump, Anna Sui La Vie De Bohème, followed by a very short but pretty spot for J Del Pozo Halloween Fleur and another for L’Artisan Parfumeur Explosions d’Emotions.
Perfume to Celebrate Labor Day
Labor Day means so many things: among them, a day to commemorate the working class; the end of summer; the start of a new school year; and for the sartorially correct, the last day to wear white shoes and seersucker. What perfume feels right to you for Labor Day?
Here are a few choices of the top of my head:
Estée Lauder White Linen: O.K., I admit I chose this one for its name. From the sound of it, White Linen should herald summer and tea parties on long, sloping lawns with people dressed like Jay Gatsby playing croquet. The truth is, White Linen is sharp and clean and infinitely more versatile than its name implies, as long as its wearer has combed her hair and powdered her nose.
L’Artisan Parfumeur Piment Brûlant: Time for summer salads and barbeque! Piment Brûlant smells like a freshly snapped red bell pepper on a bed of vanilla-scented rose petals and cut grass…
L’Artisan Parfumeur Explosions d’Emotions ~ new fragrances
L’Artisan Parfumeur will launch Explosions d’Emotions, a new trio of fragrances developed by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour. Déliria, Amour Nocturne and Skin on Skin will debut in September…
Fragrance gifts for Mother’s Day 2013, part 3
Mother’s Day is coming up on Sunday, 12 May — here is our final set of gift ideas in case you’re still shopping. If you missed it, check out part 1 and part 2.
From Charlotte Olympia, hinged perfume-bottle-shaped clutch purses made from colored perspex. $1295 (gulp!) each at Neiman Marcus…
Top 10 Spring Fragrances 2013
I can’t believe it’s been five years since my last Top Ten Spring Fragrances list, but yes, a look back confirms that fact. My tastes haven’t shifted much since then, yet I can somehow come up with plenty of new favorites. Of course, there are the fragrances that I consider part of my springtime “hall of fame”: Guerlain Apres l’Ondée and Chamade, Frederic Malle En Passant. These come into rotation every March or April, come rain or come shine (and lately, it’s been mostly rain). But, beyond these classics, I’m easily able to compile a list of other fragrances I’ve been wearing or will be wearing over the next month or two.
What to wear when the calendar says Spring, but the weather is still chilly and damp and dreary? I love to don Frederic Malle L’Eau d’Hiver during that indecisive kind of weather, perhaps because it walks a fine line between warm and cool, soft and crisp…