Spanish fashion brand Mango has launched Rebel Hero Night Out, a flanker to 2013’s Rebel Hero for Him, and Lady Rebel Night Out, a flanker to 2009’s Lady Rebel…
Violeta by Mango Reve de Mediterranee ~ new fragrance
Spanish fashion brand Mango has launched Rêve de Méditerranée, a new fragrance for its plus-size range, Violeta by Mango…
Bunch o’ fragrance ads 2015, part 1
A slideshow round up of recent-ish fragrance advertising, print and digital, plus a few older ads (40 slides in all) — most of these are for fragrances released in stores over the past six months, or just about to be released…
Mango Rebel Hero Wanted ~ new fragrance
Spanish fashion brand Mango has launched Rebel Hero Wanted, a new fragrance for their masculine H.E. by Mango line. Rebel Hero Wanted is a flanker to last year’s Rebel Hero…
Sweet Anthem Juliet ~ fragrance review
On sultry summer days this year (there’ll probably be around, oh, fifteen of them in Seattle if we’re lucky), when someone asks me what sultry perfume I’m wearing, I’ll have a hard time saying (whispering?) “Juliet.” First, I don’t like Shakespeare’s annoying teen, the inspiration for this perfume, and secondly, Sweet Anthem Juliet,1 the fragrance, does not remind me of virginal 16th century Verona girls. As I wear Juliet, I’ll be thinking of the South Pacific and Gauguin’s colorful images of half-naked men and women, flowers around their necks or in their hair, lounging near the sea. I wanted to use Gauguin’s painting, Jeune Homme à la Fleur to illustrate this post, but it’s not in the public domain, so the tattooed guy above will have to suffice (and I don’t think anyone would dare give him grief for wearing a perfume called “Juliet”).
Sweet Anthem, founded by perfumer Meredith Smith,2 is an indie/artisan perfumery based in Seattle. Juliet combines many of my favorite things…