Paco Rabanne will follow up on 2005's Black XS For Him with a new fragrance for “trendy girls and rebel princesses”, Black XS For Her. The new scent is “feminine and sensuous, evolving from fruity to floral to woody notes”:
Emilie Coppermann and Marc Buxton (Symrise) built the fragrance around a heart of hellebore rose, with tamarind blossom, pink peppercorns and cranberry in the sharp, fresh top note…
Paco Rabanne has launched this year's summer limited edition versions of Ultraviolet: Ultraviolet Summer Pop.
Ultraviolet Summer Pop for women (in the round bottle) is a fruity floral with pink grapefruit, pink pepper, coral flower, osmanthus, sandalwood and vanilla.
Ultraviolet Man Summer Pop features iced accord, grapefruit, green pepper, crystal oak moss, cedar and amber.
Both Paco Rabanne Ultraviolet Summer Pop scents are in Eau de Toilette…
One of the biggest surprises of 2005 was without a doubt Paco Rabanne’s Black XS for Men, created by perfumer Olivier Cresp. A subtle blend of lemon, kalamanzi (a citrus resembling a cross between mandarin and lime), tagete and sage with heart notes of cinnamon, tolu balm, black cardamom and praline, and base notes of palissander wood, black amber, patchouli and ebony wood, Black XS bears little resemblance to its XS predecessors and to put it as simply as possible, smells like a delicious blend of strawberries and patchouli…
Anna Sui’s latest release is a limited edition fragrance for summer, Dolly Girl on the Beach, featuring notes of mandarin, lemon, peach nectar, apple, cassis, marigold, bergamot, freesia, lotus blossom, rose petals, crushed leaves, blonde woods, amber crystals and powdery musks…
More details on the renovated Guerlain flagship boutique (see March 12 & May 25), the interior of which is shown to the right:
Le Mouchoir de Monsieur and La Voilette de Madame, the first reissues, will be packaged in numbered, limited edition bottles, and will retail for $979. Cuir Beluga, Rose Barbare and Angelique Noir will be $171 for 100 ml of Eau de Parfum. Plus Que Jamais Guerlain will be $318 for 60 ml of Eau de Parfum, and “includes notes of Calabrian bergamot, Tunisian neroli, ylang-ylang, jasmine, iris and Bourbon vanilla.”
Paco Rabanne will launch Black XS for men this summer…