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The Scent Trail by Celia Lyttelton ~ perfume books

Posted by Marcello on 27 March 2009 36 Comments

The Scent Trail by Celia LytteltonMost people can only dream of having a perfume made just for themselves. Celia Lyttelton saw that dream turn into reality when she approached Anastasia Brozler, the founder of London-based Creative Perfumers, and asked her to develop a unique, personalized fragrance. Brozler is a former head of perfume marketing at Estée Lauder and L’Oreál in Europe, and was a sales director at Crown Perfumery before she opened her own company in 1999. She helped Lyttelton in selecting the ingredients, and then assigned the project to perfumer Norbert Bijaoui, who took care of the actual composition. Meanwhile, Lyttelton embarked on a trip around the world to learn more about the materials of her choice. Together with her husband Stephen and their young son Tarquin, she followed the trail of her bespoke perfume on a long journey to France, Morocco, Turkey, Italy, Sri Lanka, India, and Yemen. This book is her travel diary.

Much like Jean-Paul Guerlain’s Les Routes de mes parfums (2002), Lyttelton guides us through these countries to explore the art and craft of perfumery. Each chapter features one or two ingredients, and leads to a different region…

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Cerruti 1881 Intense Pour Homme ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 2 October 2008 Leave a Comment

Cerruti 1881 Pour Homme Intense cologne for men1881 Intense Pour Homme is Cerruti's latest flanker to their 1990 release, Cerruti 1881 Pour Homme (and in case you were wondering: “The figure `1' represents man, heaven and earth; `8' represents woman, fertility and birth”, according to Cosmetics International, 4/25/1990).

1881 Intense Pour Homme was developed by perfumer Norbert Bijaoui, and is an aromatic woody fougère…

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Esteban Classic Chypre & Modern Chypre, Opus Oils Satan's Angel ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 21 September 2007 10 Comments

Esteban Classic Chypre perfume

Next month, Esteban will introduce Collection Chypres, comprising two new fragrances in the chypre fragrance category.

Classic Chypre (shown) is “like an intense presence of rare elegance…”

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Givenchy Organza Indecence ~ perfume review

Posted by Robin on 20 September 2007 54 Comments

Givenchy Organza Indecence fragrance

If you have too much activity with simultaneous launches, the customer is overwhelmed and very few products will actually break through to become successful.

That’s Robert Brady of Givenchy, speaking in 1996 about his company’s decision to delay the US launch of Givenchy Organza so as “to avoid a packed playing field” (via Women’s Wear Daily, 10/25/1996). Strictly speaking, it has nothing to do with today’s fragrance, Organza Indecence, which launched in 1999 as Organza’s “vampy little sister” (Ibid, 5/28/99), I just couldn’t help cracking up when I read it. There were around 200 fragrance launches in 1996; this year, we’re expecting some 800. Enough said…

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Givenchy Les Parfums Mythiques ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 5 August 2007 30 Comments

Givenchy Les Mythiques fragrance collection

Givenchy will celebrate their 50th anniversary as a fragrance house with the launch of Les Mythiques, a set of 10 fragrances from the line’s back catalog. Six of the scents are for women, four for men; five of the 10 were no longer on the market. The fragrances are:

Le De ~ originally launched in 1957…

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