Esteban has launched six new fragrances:
Angelic Flower, Oriental Flower and Sonata Flower, all in Eau de Toilette concentration, make up the new Collection Les Floraux :
Angelic Flower ~ ” The impromptu mischievousness of the vibrant umbellates reveals a subtly powdery perfume under the drops of dew”.
Oriental Flower ~ “The bewitching elixir of white flowers with a disturbing, mysterious sensuality”.
Sonata Flower ~ ” The sparkling, radiant feminity of a luxuriant bouquet with accents of fresh fruit”.
Cuir and Patchouli, also in Eau de Toilette, join the Collection Matières (see also Cedre, Pivoine, Tonka & Ambre):
Cuir ~ “Under the sensual caress of velvety skin, the wild softness of wonderfully polished leather”.
Patchouli ~ “In the rustling patchouli leaves with echoes of mahogany beats the warm, intense pulse of the earth that gave them life”.
And lastly, Balade créole (shown at right) joins the bath line: “a floral-fruity eau de toilette in which the freshness of pineapple and guava enhance a floral heart on a woody-vanilla base”.
Esteban Balade créole is available in 100 ml. (via esteban.fr)
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Okay, you're making up vibrant umbrellates.
What izz VIBRANT UMBELLATES?
*goes to check mahogany dresser for echo*
ugh, I love this line.
Very excited about smelling soo many of these. I love their Ambre.
Seriously, I could not have made that up.
Dunno, but it must be good, right? LOL!
I have smelled some but not all, and want to try the Colors collection — have you tried any of those?
*awe* What a glorious mangle. The wild softness of the wonderfully polished leather beneath my velvety skin craves the impromptu vibrancy of the mischievous umbellates. Come to me, o subtly powdery dewdrops.
I'm thinking they're limbering up for the Prix Eaux Faux.
Every time I read something like “launches 6 new fragrances” I wither a bit on the inside. Didn't we collectively wish that there won't be 50 new fruity floral flankers for 2008? What is vibrant umbrellates?! There's no need to make up entries for PdEF when there already exist copies like this. Pineapple guava vanilla sounds like a great empanada filling I once had at a Publix in West Palm, but they need some fried oil accord in there to really sell.
I just also want to tack on here the I loved your review of Bel Respiro, and as a newly minted BR owner, I *so* love this stuff.
PERFECT!
And they've a good chance of winning! Hope they'll add the notes to the website later, these sound like they could be good.
I know what you mean. Not sure why not release 2 every 6 months or so, but perhaps there are reasons upon reasons.
Oh, lucky you if you've a new bottle of Bel Respiro! I'm quite jealous.
I've always wanted to smell like vibrant umbrellas! I would like to try Angelic Flower just to see.
I think they STOLE my Prix Eaux Faux entry.
And I am sure the umbrellas would be just lovely on you!
Hey, my second passion after perfumes is words – which is way I lke this blog sooo much! FYI an umbellate is
“an umbrella-shaped flower head in which the individual flowers are borne on short stems arising from the top of a main stem. It is typical of plants such as parsley, carrot, dill, and fennel.”
Ida
But it's not as sexy to say it'll make you smell like parsley. Lol. I love words to, so this just makes my night.
Ida, thank you for being the only one who bothered to investigate, LOL! I still say it is a silly sentence, but at least it makes sense.
I'm a botany geek, so I got the umbellates reference, although I think it was egregious in a perfume context–most of them don't smell like anything, some smell faintly of licorice, and of course fennel has its' own fragrance. But still
I just want to know how they get that powder hidden under the dewdrops.
Ok, so I majored in botany, and there is a plant family called Umbelliferae (new family name Apiaceae). This family includes carrots, dill, Queen Anne's Lace, fennel, wild hemlock, etc etc. The flowers have a particular structure that is referred to as Umbels (google this if you're that interested) So maybe the description is referring to the fresh, herbal, green scents of this family?
LOL — it ain't easy. Requires a master perfumer
Could be! Haven't seen a list of notes yet.
I love these descriptions–they sound so bosom-heaving, like something the literary character “Anne of Green Gables” would've written, “Oh, but a drizzling softness of rapturously incandescent maple syrup with just a pixie dash of impetuous, perpetuous, glorious sea-salt–of the sort that dries from the hands of sea nymphs as they run their fingertips through their glossy, nut-brown, sea-kelp hair!”
Anne of Green Gables! My favorite, and I think this is her first mention on NST so I'm tickled about it.
And PERFECT imitation of the character, by the way!
Especially love that “of the sort” in the middle of the bosom-heaving!
Adore Anne-with-and-e, and was just quoting her to a friend the other day in reference to her disappointment with violets — it reminded me of how Anne was disappointed in diamonds, because she wanted them to be royal purple.
LOL — and I'm firmly with Anne on the subject of diamonds. Never understood the appeal of “clear”.