Van Cleef & Arpels has launched Féerie Spring Blossom, a new limited edition flanker to 2008′s Féerie. Féerie Spring Blossom follows 2011’s Féerie Rose des Neiges…
Van Cleef & Arpels First Eau de Parfum Intense ~ new fragrance
Van Cleef & Arpels has launched First Eau de Parfum Intense, a new limited edition variation on their well-known First fragrance for women, originally introduced in 1976…
Van Cleef & Arpels Precious Oud ~ fragrance review
Van Cleef & Arpels launched Precious Oud last year; it’s part of the Collection Extraordinaire and was created to honor the “legendary ingredient, oud wood.” If I had been advising Van Cleef & Arpels on this fragrance, I would have suggested two alternate names for the perfume. Alternate Name No. 1: “Semi-Precious Oud.” Alternate Name No. 2: “Precious Little Oud.” My thought progression as I sniffed Precious Oud was: ‘So this is Precious Oud…Really?…No way!’
Though it bears the name “oud,” I don’t detect any oud in Precious Oud. Has the oud perfume trend degenerated to the point of simply including the word “oud” in a fragrance name and no longer worrying about having oud in the perfume? That’s pretty amusing…
Van Cleef & Arpels Aqua Oriens ~ new fragrance
Van Cleef & Arpels will launch Aqua Oriens in April. The new limited edition fragrance for women is a flanker to 2010’s Oriens, and hopes to “evoke a dip in a Tahitian lagoon”…
Van Cleef & Arpels Feerie Rose des Neiges ~ new perfume
Van Cleef & Arpels will launch Féerie Rose des Neiges, a new limited edition fragrance for women, in September. Féerie Rose des Neiges was inspired by the rose Fée des neiges, and is a flanker to 2008’s Féerie…