Three videos for the new Nina Ricci La Tentation de Nina, a fragrance inspired by Ladurée macarons. First up, the fragrance commercial. Below the jump, a quick food image video, followed by perfumer Olivier Cresp and chef Lemains Vincent of Ladurée talking about the fragrance and making (and eating) the matching macaron.
Paco Rabanne Black XS Potion ~ new fragrances
Paco Rabanne will launch Black XS Potion, new fragrances for women and men, in February. The Black XS Potion scents are limited edition flankers to the brand’s rock-oriented Black XS (2005) and Black XS Pour Elle (2007), and were developed by perfumers Olivier Cresp and Emilie Coppermann…
Mercedes-Benz Club ~ new fragrance
Mercedes-Benz will launch Mercedes-Benz Club, a new fruity-woody fragrance for men. The tag line: ‘a perfume for the new generation’.
Boucheron Place Vendome ~ perfume review
Place Vendôme is the latest fragrance from luxury jewelry house Boucheron, and it’s their first under new licensing arrangements with InterParfums (they used to be with L’Oreal). It’s a woody floriental named for the location of the brand’s flagship store in Paris.
Place Vendôme Eau de Parfum* opens bright and citrusy, with a slight trail of orange blossom, and the usual pink pepper very much in evidence almost from the start. The heart is soft and velvety, and floral in the modern style. The press materials promise that “jasmine deploys its full floral power”, but of course that is nonsense. If you are scared of indoles — or white flowers, or traditional oriental fragrances, or even any vague hint of skank — do rest assured that flowers are kept on the same tight leash here that they are in nearly every mainstream perfume these days. Still, there is orange blossom, and there is jasmine…
Valentino Valentina Oud Assoluto ~ new fragrance
Valentino will launch Valentina Oud Assoluto in September. Valentina Oud Assoluto is a flanker to 2012’s Valentina Assoluto, which was a flanker to 2011′s Valentina. The new scent was inspired by the ‘riches of the Orient’…