Marc Jacob's new commercial for Daisy (and Daisy Eau So Fresh). It's an awful lot like the old commercial for Daisy: girls, field, big bottles of Daisy.
Marc Jacobs Splash Tropical 2012 ~ new fragrances
Marc Jacobs will launch his latest set of limited edition Splash fragrances, the Splash Tropical Collection, in early 2012. Rain, from the original 2006 collection, is returning for another season, and will be joined by two new fragrances, Hibiscus and Kumquat. This year, the old 300 ml bottle will be replaced with a 100 ml cube-shaped bottle…
Holiday fragrance gifts 2011, part 2
Our series of holiday gift posts continues; today we’ve got travel sizes, coffrets and roll-ons — and we’ll have more of the same coming up next week. If you missed part 1 (scented body products), you can find it here.
From Chantecaille, new travel roll-ons, each in its own case: “Chantecaille’s beautiful signature scents now have convenience and portability. The elegant, silk-screened glass tube arrives in a chic white faux-croc pouch.” $68 for 8 ml, available in Petales, Kalimantan, Vetyver, Tiare and Frangipane. At Neiman Marcus…
Marc Jacobs Bang Bang ~ fragrance review
My favorite Bang Bang can be heard here. (Perhaps you’d like to listen as you read this review?) Marc Jacobs Bang Bang was released in August, and compared to the splashy debut of Bang, didn’t even merit a drum-roll, let alone a double-bang. I’ve seen no Bang Bang advertisements in magazines and the fragrance seems to be available only on the Marc Jacobs website in the U.S. — not in any major department stores.
Recently, a Nordstrom perfume sales person told me original Bang was a flop with consumers. (Clerk: “It didn’t smell good. We’re not stocking Bang anymore…and there’s a new Bang?”) All this surprised me — a Nordstrom perfume counter employee dissing a fragrance? Bang, such an original, pert, fun fragrance, a dud?
Bang Bang was developed by perfumer Yann Vasnier and lists notes of lemon, fennel, cardamom, sage, patchouli, sandalwood and cashmere musks.* Ignoring the advice I give others, I bought Bang Bang…unsniffed…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2011, part 17
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.
From Chantecaille, special order bottles decorated with crystals: “This season Chantecaille introduces hand-decorated Swarovski® embellished fragrance bottles. Exclusive and luxurious, these bottles are the creations of the renowned artist Cimon. His fanciful Swarovski® adorned sculptures are collected all over the world. Like a couture gown, each exquisitely decorated bottle may be special ordered in the [sic] and will be received in four weeks.” Available in all of the Chantecaille fragrances; Frangipani is shown. $600 each at Neiman Marcus…