Ralph Lauren will launch Polo Red Extreme, a new flanker to 2013’s Polo Red. Polo Red Extreme follows 2015’s Polo Red Intense, and is geared towards a younger audience…
Lancome Les Parfums Grands Crus ~ new fragrances
Lancôme has launched Les Parfums Grands Crus, a collection of six fragrances honoring Armand PetitJean, the brand’s founder. The series includes three new florals (Lavandes Trianon, Jasmins Marzipane and Tubéreuses Castane) and three ouds, one new (Ôud Ambroisie) and two relaunches (Ôud Bouquet and L’Autre Ôud)…
Calvin Klein Reveal Men ~ fragrance review
Do you have friends who believe themselves to be Great Cooks (simply because they’ve watched every dull/repetitive show on the Food Network for 10 years?) When you get an invitation for breakfast, lunch or dinner from these folks, your stomach cramps. You imagine their latest inventions (atrocities): Scrapple Swirl Chocolate Ice Cream, Dirty Corn (on the cob) slathered with a molasses and sardine oil glaze, Summer Lasagna, complete with pineapple, carrots and shredded toasted coconut nestled between Greek yogurt-smeared noodles. Oh, and sriracha sauce on everything!
As I’ve written before, I get the same sour stomach when I read note lists from Calvin Klein men’s colognes…
Calvin Klein Reveal Men ~ new fragrance
Calvin Klein will launch Reveal Men in February. The new fragrance is the masculine counterpart to the recently launched Calvin Klein Reveal, and will be fronted by Charlie Hunnam…
Tom Ford Private Blend Tobacco Oud ~ fragrance review
I’ve never been tempted to smoke, but I love the smell of tobacco. Years ago I lived in an apartment whose former occupant smoked Dutch Masters cigarillos. I found a few empty packages — plus an envelope crammed with skull x-rays, go figure — in a cupboard. When the seasons turned, the fetid aroma of long-dead cigarillos wafted from the sheetrock. Delicious. Where I now live, on warm nights my neighbor settles into his backyard hot tub after swing shift at the sewage treatment plant and watches movies on his laptop while he smokes cigars. I like smelling the hint of smoke that made it as far as my bedroom window.
But, for me, head and shoulders above these smells is the aroma of pipe tobacco. Maybe it’s because one of my grandfathers smoked a pipe (when he wasn’t burning through packages of Winstons, that is), or maybe it’s the romantic idea of things associated with pipes — wood-paneled libraries, fireplaces, and cocker spaniels — that allures me. Whatever the case, I’ve longed to find a perfume that captures this fragrance without being too sweet or on-the-nose precious.
Could Tom Ford Private Blend Tobacco Oud be it? I ordered a decant unsniffed…