Perfumer Pierre Bourdon has launched an eponymous niche perfume line. The initial collection includes five fragrances: three for women (La Dame en Rose, Sous les Magnolias, La Fin D’un Été) and two for men (Route des Épices, Le Grand Tour)…
Serge Lutens Feminite du Bois ~ fragrance relaunch
Féminité du Bois, developed by perfumers Pierre Bourdon and Christopher Sheldrake under the direction of Serge Lutens and originally released under the Shiseido brand name in 1992, has joined the Serge Lutens export line.
Serge Lutens Féminité du Bois is available in 75 50 ml Eau de Parfum. It can be found now at Senteurs d'Ailleurs in Brussels, where it is €80, or at The Perfume Shoppe in Canada, where it is CAD $79. Update: my mistake (and I managed two in this one article); The Perfume Shoppe appears to be selling the original Shiseido Féminité du Bois.
Romea d’Ameor ~ new perfumes
Roméa d'Améor is a new French niche house that debuted earlier this year with seven perfumes created as tributes “to real women throughout the ages who have touched history in tangible ways”. All of the fragrances were developed by perfumer Pierre Bourdon.
Les Espionnes du Tsar / The Secret Heroines of the Tsar ~ “…a fragrant story dripping with intensity (patchouli and Malfi lemon), sweetness (caramel, apple) and intrigue (sandalwood, musk and amber)…” Additional notes include grapefruit, melon, jasmine, rose, lily of the valley, magnolia, iris and vanilla…
Guerlain Cologne du 68 ~ fragrance review, with a brief aside on Ferragamo Tuscan Soul
A very kind person sent me a sample of Guerlain’s Cologne du 68 last year, some time after it had launched in France back in 2006. I liked it, so I put it on my “to buy” list. Mind you, my “to buy” list isn’t really a list of things I actually mean to purchase; it’s more a list of things I’d like to have in my collection and that I might hypothetically be willing to spend some hypothetical amount of money on in some hypothetical future. At the time, Cologne du 68 was only sold in Paris, and only in a 490 ml bottle for 180€, so the likelihood that it would ever grace my perfume shelves was pretty much nil.
Fast forward to 2008. As part of their 180th anniversary celebrations, Guerlain has now issued Cologne du 68 (named for their address on the Champs Elysées) in a 100 ml bottle, and it can be had at your local Neiman Marcus for $100. I went to visit it there to see if it was worth having now that it was affordable (at least in the relative sense), decided it was not, and promptly bought it anyway. Serves me right, doesn’t it? My advice: don’t go hanging around the Guerlain counter if you don’t want to spend money…
Salvatore Ferragamo Tuscan Soul ~ new fragrance
Coming in September from Salvatore Ferragamo, Tuscan Soul, a citrus woody floral unisex fragrance. Bath and body products under the Tuscan Soul name have been available for the past year as amenity kits from Singapore Airlines and as a guest collection at selected hotels. Tuscan Soul is geared towards the expanding Chinese market and was introduced to the press earlier this year at Ferragamo's 80th anniversary celebrations in Shanghai.
The new fragrance was developed by perfumer Pierre Bourdon…