Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has launched Kohl Gris, the latest addition to the Aroma-Color collection:
Inspired by our upcoming promotion with the fabulous 3 Custom Color Specialists and their new Holiday Palette of Red, Silver and Grey, our newest aroma-color is a delicious Charcoal Grey. Kohl Gris is the scent of the smoky eye; sexy, seductive and smoldering. Built on a classical base of ambergris, Kohl Gris wafts in sensuality and spicy smoke.
The notes feature bergamot, black pepper, black pine, clove leaf, rose, jasmine, lavender, ambergris, sandalwood, brown oakmoss, clove tobacco, labdanum, olibanum and orris.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Kohl Gris is available in Eau de Parfum or Parfum, samples are also available.
E’pices d’Hiver is a new 100% natural fragrance in the Parfum des Beaux Arts range:
The first of our upcoming ‘Gaia Perfumes”, an all botanical collection of fine perfumes. E’pices d’Hiver is a wonderfully enveloping and warm with a lusciously rich drydown. It’s just what I crave for Fall and winter… spice.
Notes include bergamot, bitter orange, citrus, coriander, davana, pink peppercorn, star anise, cinnamon, clove, jasmine, rose, nutmeg, spices, ambrette, labdanum, benzoin, tolu, tonka bean, myrrh and vanilla.
E’pices d’Hiver is available in Parfum.
And new to the Essence Studio range is Hanukah Canelle:
This year’s Holiday scent was inspired by my favorite Hanukah dish: one made of apples, cinnamon, nuts and honey. Of course, I’ve taken some artistic liberties to create a Holiday perfume that’s sexy, luscious and a delight to wear. Let’s spice it up!
The notes include aldehydes, bergamot, bitter almond, galbanum, orange blossom, apple, cinnamon, jasmine, muguet, Atlas cedar, sandalwood, butter co2, patchouli, honey, incense and labdanum.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Hanukah Canelle is available in Eau de Parfum, Parfum, Perfume Oil or Water-based Body Spray, and samples are available. (via dshperfumes)
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I *want* to smell Koal Gris! Smokey and seductive involving anbergris is almost a sure thing for me. Actually, all three sound good. But Koal Griss is wintery without necessarily being something to wear for the holidays and would work in autumn as well as winter. Even our springs are often frosty enough to qualify wearing it then, too.
Wow, me too. The name alone is enough to get me salivating. It’s hilarious that they call is the “scent of a smoky eye,” though. I think next time I see someone with fabulous eye makeup, I’m going to walk up to them and start investigating their ocular aroma. I doubt it will be a problem.
Kohl Gris does sound lovely & warm!
Thanks to Gris Clair I now have a Pavlovian response to anything with the words “gris” or “clair” in it. I will therefore have to investigate this Kohl Gris.
Oh, me too! Umm. Smokey and seductive, even the juice looks that way. I can just imagine the dry down- ahh!
It’s turning out to be a great series.
Hi Robin. Have you ever smelled DSH Giardini Segreti? This one appeals to me because it sounds like a beautiful floral-woody musk. If anyone has sampled it, not just you- what are your perceptions? I’m going through a too poor for samples stage.
I am out of town & don’t have my testing notes with me…if you remember, ask me again next week!
Her scents are so beautifully done. This is the first of the recent Aromacolor series that has really appealed to me, though. (Adore Oeillets Rouges, still saving up for it. And Fire Opal was lovely.)
Trying to remember if I tried the carnation…sounds nice!
I don’t get the meaning of the extra apostrophe in E’pice d’Hiver, but I’m always up for something like that or Hanukah Canelle in winter or during the holidays.
Kohl Gris description at first didn’t do much for me, but I’m sure it could be quite nice. Lately though, I’ve been wanting to sample some “reference ambergris” scents… any suggestions?
I always think of the beautiful Eau des Merveilles (thanks for suggesting, Robin!) as a quintessential ambergris perfume. The drydown of Balmain Amber Gris is supposed to be pretty spot-on too, but I haven’t smelled it yet.
it is an awesome dry down…love it
I wonder if it’s meant to be an accent, rather than an apostrophe?
Took a quick peek, and now am sure it’s meant to be an accent, as she has the same for “the’ vert”.
Interesting. That didn’t occur to me in this day and age.
Oh dear, is that what it was?? I didn’t catch that, sorry.
I love Oeillets Rouge, too! I got a little in a carnation sampler from TPC and think it is just great. Much better staying power that the L’Artisan Oeillets Sauvage that was also included. I didn’t find anything “sauvage” about it. I’ve got a list as long as my arm of DSH fragrances that I really want. *sigh* Why does natural always equal expensive….
The Chanukah one made me giggle a little. We serve fried foods during Chanukah because we are celebrating the miracle of the oil which burned for eight nights, hence the potato latkes and the sufganiyot (jelly doughnuts). The dish she is referring to is charoset which is a blend of apples, cinnamon, honey, and sweet wine (and other stuff like figs, dates, raisins, or even bananas thrown in depending on your family origins and traditions). It is sticky sweet and we serve it at Passover on the seder plate to symbolize the mortar used between the bricks to build the pyramids while the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt. No desire to start a religious discussion – just pointing out traditional holiday foods.
Yes, I wondered if she was talking about charoset! I was thinking–but what about the wine note? That would be so nice…
Maybe she eats it for Channukah, too?
A scent based on charosis with a wine accord would be yummy! I love transliterated Hebrew because you can spell things any way you like and they are always correct.
Please tell me that AHTX stands for Alamo Heights, TX. If so, meet me at Saks in an hour – they have some free gifts for us!
Hee! Hee! I’d love to meet you at Saks, but I’m in Austin. The AH is for my initials…
Kind of hard to build a scent around latkes, though, isn’t it? Or maybe just too avant-garde…I could imagine a Latke perfume in something like Comme des Garcons Series 9: Carbs.
HA! Noodle kugel would have to be in there, too. It would include notes of cinnamon, raisins, vanilla, and maybe that bready smelling note from Bois de Farine. Actually, that sounds pretty good….
Challah anyone?
we bake it every Friday morning…the smell in my home is absolutely wonderous…..couldn’t imagine anyone can come close to replicating ,or even similar to it….it’s my second best smell after the smell of a baby, or little child…smells that are just Heaven sent!
Okay, hongkongmom, you are my latest fragrance guru . You love Shalimar, my HGP esp. in vintage, recommended a good amber which I am searching for, and bake Challah every Friday. The next time I’m in Hong Kong I’m looking you up to go fragrance shopping. I say next time like I’m there all the time. It has been about 20 years since I was there last.
As for baby scented things, the only one I can think of is Philosophy’s Baby Grace which is for grown women who want to smell like babies. Not so much…. I would rather smell like bread.
Ooh! Can we add Funnel Cake to that list? Yummm.
We should put that one in the Texas State Fair series along with the other delicacies the fair is known for such as chicken fried bacon, fried Coke, fried ice cream balls, and fried Snickers. I’m not kidding. I could go on but I’m getting sick just thinking about it.
Thank you Julia, that was all informative!
I STILL haven’t sampled any DSH’s creations. *Sigh* I really need to do something about that!!
Me, too. Next year!
Me three. So many of them sound mouth-watering.
Me four! I guess we have some catching up to do. Kohl Gris and Epices d’Hiver sound great to me.
There are so many it’s hard to know where to start…she has some sample sets now though, that helps.
These look great! I liked Sienna, Cimabue and Cathedral, but they were a tad too resiny. Kohl Gris and Epices d’Hiver may just nail it!
I love Cimabue! Have to check to see if I tried Cathedral, that sounds up my alley too.
would love to try all of them…the name “khol gris” gets me happy right away..seems like perfume with the word gris in them… find a good spot in the positive side of my scent brain..gris clair, amber gris….
It’s one of those names that’s better in French…
definately
I smell a lawsuit on this one. I wonder if Kohl’s has has caught wind of their name being used in this fragrance title.
Good grief let’s hope not, considering ‘kohl’ is a type of black pigment (also, I checked — already used in the color name of a type of Dior mascara).
At the risk of being called a pedant again, I would like to ask what language ‘Canelle’ is supposed to be in.
Yes, I know: it’s supposed to be French for ‘cinnamon’, but it isn’t since the French word takes two ‘n’s.
I won’t bother to mention the use of the apostrophe instead of the acute accent all over the place because it’s beyond ridiculous and it’s been remarked on already.
DSH is a lovely woman, but she’s one of the worst offenders in the realm of language mangling.
Come back Miller Harris, all is forgiven! LOL!
You know I can’t throw stones…we are massively inconsistent about the use of accent marks around here. Ack.
Oh well. It’s a fragrance blog, not a grammar blog; I think a few inconsistencies can be overlooked.
Good, because we can’t afford what we need: an editor.
I feel Kohl Gris would suit me very much. I must now find out if this company sells overseas… Thank you, I like the smokey eye description!
Hope you can get to try it!