Posted by Robin
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24 October 2006
I love a good bargain, but you wouldn’t know it from this site — it has been ages since we’ve managed to include anything in the budget perfume category around here. In general, I am buying less and less all the time, regardless of price. My perfume collection already overfloweth, and the bigger it gets, the harder it is for me to convince myself that something new is full-bottle-worthy. But sometimes you just feel the need to spend, even if your wallet is somewhat less than full, and hence my latest acquisition: Encens Mystic.
Encens Mystic is one of the solid perfumes from the Crazylibellule & The Poppies Shanghaijava Collection. These are nifty little 5 gram twist-ups in bright paper packaging, bigger than a lipstick but still small enough to throw in your purse. Encens Mystic has notes of clove, cedar, incense, myrrh, benzoin, musk, patchouli and vanilla. The aroma is church incense (a la Comme des Garçons Avignon) blended with a bit of of holiday candle (vanilla and clove). It isn’t wildly complicated, but it smells awfully good. If you find the scent of incense comforting, as I do, it might be just the thing you need this winter for emergency aromatherapy…
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Posted by Robin
on
24 October 2006
A French court has ordered Guerlain to stop marketing Insolence in its current packaging:
Judge Claude Vallet, who deals with urgent cases at Paris's Court of First Instance, found that the packaging by Serge Mansau, composed of three half-spheres atop each other, was too similar to a design registered by Jean-Claude Cardiet of Paris firm Cardiet Design.
Guerlain must therefore stop production of the packaging within 15 days of the judgement, dated October 20, although it has not been ordered to take existing bottles of the fragrance off the market. (via cosmeticnews)
Oops. I didn't love the bottle anyway; it didn't look very Guerlain-ish.
Update 11/3: As you might expect, Guerlain has filed an appeal. (via Yahoo News)
Update 12/20: Cardiet Design dropped their lawsuit.
Posted by Robin
on
24 October 2006
New at lafcony: Eau d'Italie Bois d'Ombrie & Sienne l'Hiver.
New at nordstrom: Ralph Lauren Polo Double Black.
New at scentiments: Givenchy Amarige Mariage.
Posted by Robin
on
24 October 2006
Yves Rocher Hoggar, launched last year in France, is now available at US stores. The fragrance was created by perfumer Marie-Aude Couture and is described as an “ultra-masculine, oriental woody scent, evocative of desert dunes and winds…” Notes include bergamot, tobacco, tonka bean and cedar. (via yvesrocher, cosmoty.de)
Indie perfumer Sali Oguri will launch her second fragrance, Unreleased Mix aka Persephone, in conjunction with her indie CD release, WUJ Productions Unreleased Mixes…
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