Trendy French sportswear brand IKKS will launch Private by IKKS (shown above left) next month. Private is the line’s second fragrance for women, following 1999′s IKKS Women.
The notes for the floral fragrance include mandarin, blackcurrant, white flowers, amber, praline and vanilla.
IKKS Private will be available in 50 and 100 ml Eau de Parfum; it will not launch in the US until next year. (via us.fashionmag, cosmeticnews, parfumsberdoues)
Mally Beauty, the cosmetics brand of makeup artist Mally Roncal, has launched Mally (shown above right).
The fragrance focuses on sampaguita, the national flower of the Phillipines; additional notes include mandarin, red currant, bamboo, palm leaf, freesia, jasmine, muguet, peony, peach, coconut, sandalwood and musks.
Mally by Mally Beauty is available in 50 ml, concentration unknown, for $65, and can be found now at Henri Bendel in New York. It will debut on QVC later this month. (via cosmeticworld, wwd)
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Sampaguita? That’s a new one [unless you're from the Phillipines, then I guess you know it pretty well]. I never heard of IKKS or Mally Roncal either. I feel like I live in a cave. LOL The notes for Mally sound like a real mish mosh of ingredients.
Sampaguita is just the Filipino name for jasmine sambac/Arabian jasmine.
Oh, nice. Thanks for the info!
Thanks Ojeda, you beat me to it! Ormonde Jayne has a perfume named Sampaguita too.
Speaking of which, have you smelled it, Robin? That and Sarassins are next on my Apparently Endless HG Jasmine Quest. Tried Montale Jasmin and Diptyque Olene — both were no go.
I’m running out of niche jasmines…
It is possibly my least favorite from the line, and not sure I could explain exactly why…it’s definitely pretty, but I found it less distinctive than the other OJs.
Ojeda, do try to track down some vintage Le Galion Jasmin. It’s no longer in production, from what I know, but add it to your Searches on EvilBay and a bottle might pop up. It is a very warm and honeyed jasmine, lightly indolic, vivid and complex, and mine is in remarkably good shape, so the components seem to be holding up well. It shouldn’t cost you the earth.
Also, although you probably know this, to many noses — my own included — Jean Patou’s Joy, particularly the parfum and edt, is definitely jasmine-forward, and there’s probably no higher-quality jasmine (Grasse, in this case) out there. Easy to find the current formulation, a little trickier to find the vintage, especially in parfum. Worth the hunt. Good luck.
— a fellow jasmine lover
Hi Ojeda, I’ve been on a similar Jasmine quest these last couple of months, with what seems to be a similar lack of success – starting to wonder if maybe I just don’t like Jasmine as much as I thought I did! Maybe I’m just chasing after a dream I have about what Jasmine smells like, rather than what it actually smells like. Everything I’ve tried seems to be too indoley or BOey, or just not smell like I think Jasmine smells (hence my starting to wonder if I’m barking up the wrong tree), but I am spurred on by the memory of an essential oil I once had years ago that smelled fantastic. Just can’t seem to find a perfume that captures it… Anyway, goodluck – let me know if you find anything! (‘queenvicky’ on MUA)
Thanks, Robin. Man, I should really just order that OJ sample set.
Robin R, thanks for the tip: I really like Joy (thought I don’t know which concentrations I’ve tried; whatever they usually have at Nordies, I guess) but for me it’s too well-blended to be “a jasmine” — I’m looking for more of a solliflore. I’ll see if I can find that Le Galion, though appropriately enough to the topic of this post I am actually searching for a very sampaguita-y/sambac-y jasmine. I spent my childhood in the Philippines and when they say “national flower” they mean it! Sampaguita is everywhere in the culture, used for every occasion from garden plant to car ornament (as lei-type things) to religious altar offerings. The flower means a lot to every Filipino, I think. (Though not as a flower of romance so all that Ormonde Jayne “I promise you” ad copy stuff is like, specious and obscure at best.)
Vickyjane, unfortunately I am looking for something that’s very indolic.
But if you like a light, non-indolic jasmine L’Artisan La Haie is nice though mixed with honeysuckle, Diptyque Olene is a bit sharp but nicely green, and Keiko Mecheri Jasmine is not the most realistic but is still pretty and well-done with a bit of sugar throughout. I think it captures the spirit of the flower nicely, even though it isn’t as plant-y as the others. I just wish it was stronger or less expensive.
Thanks Ojeda!
Thanks Ojeda! Will try those…
I had never heard of them either!
I must be suffering from perfume ennui today…..this doesn’t seem to interest me at all….not even a tiny bit…..maybe I should feel my forehead for fever.
Neither of these has me salivating either.
Ho-Hum on this one.
Is that a perfume bottle she has tattooed on her arm in the IKKS ad?!? Just kidding. But it did seem so in the quick first glance. (Good grief, could that girl be any older than, hm, 14?)
If all I have to say is snark about the print ad, it doesn’t bode well for the fragrance, does it?
It looks more like she has a bottle strapped to her upper arm (the way I’ve seen joggers wear their iPods). And perfume advertising is supposed to establish and enhance a fragrance’s concept; if it triggers snark that does NOT help the overall image.
Except you know, this is probably not aimed at perfumistas
ok… I AM SALIVATING! The Mally Sounds UTTERLY SPLENDID! Peach. Coconut (as you all probably know, I am Coconutty), Jasmine Sambac, Freesia (How I LOVE FREESIA) AND Lily-Of-The-Valley…. EGADS! Can’t wait to sniff! Sounds Delectable! Like the Clean Bottle Shape too!
Not going to be easy to sniff unless you have access to Bendels, unfortunately.
there’s a Bendels In Troy In Michigan not 20 minutes from me… goign to skip there to get a smell soon!
Perfect!