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Jill Stuart Night Jewel, Creed Sublime Vanilla ~ new fragrances

Robin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:38:06 +0000

Jill Stuart has launched Night Jewel, a new perfume for women:

A fairy tale that invites you to sparkle, just like Cinderella.

A tale told through a fragrance,

with the birth of a dramatic perfume…

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L’Occitane Rose Nuit de Mai, The Bergamote / Bergamot Tea ~ new fragrances

Robin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:02:08 +0000

Coming next month from L’Occitane will be Rose Nuit de Mai (shown above left), a new perfume for women:

The captivating sensuality of rich red roses, the warm and mysterious scent of woody essences.

In May in Provence, the young people from the Pays de Forcalquier celebrate the joys of the first harvests….

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Fancy Jessica Simpson ~ perfume review

Robin — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:16:00 +0000

Jessica Simpson's debut fragrance, Fancy Jessica Simpson, is due to launch officially later this month. If you read here regularly, you already know that I'm pathetically out of it when it comes to pop culture — I don't read People, I don't listen to the radio, and I don't watch much “live” TV — and so Jessica Simpson is as mysterious to me as the rest of them. I don't know a darned thing about her personally, although I take it from prior comments here that she sings. But I do know one thing about her that is arguably more germane to this discussion anyway, and that is that she used to have a line of scented body products under the name Dessert Beauty.

The Dessert Beauty line, a collaboration between Simpson and Clean's Randi Shinder, featured products like “Belly Button Love Potion Double Dip Fragrance” (in scents called “Juicy” and “Creamy”) and “Deliciously Kissable Hot Body Topping” (in “Maraschino Cherry” or “Caramel”). If those sound appealing to you, Fancy might be right up your alley…

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Jessica Simpson Fancy ~ new perfume

Robin — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:10:45 +0000

Jessica Simpson, who as previously reported signed a fragrance deal with Parlux last year, will launch her first fragrance, Fancy Jessica Simpson, next month. According to Simpson…

With Fancy, I wanted to create a pretty fragrance, one that I could be just as comfortable wearing on the red carpet or every day with my favorite jeans.

Ms. Simpson reportedly sought “a retro vintage look” and “a romantic and feminine scent”…

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Courvoisier L’edition Imperiale ~ fragrance review

Kevin — Tue, 27 May 2008 21:44:00 +0000

For several years, I’ve been mourning the discontinuation (and disappearance) of a favorite fragrance, and I’ve searched high and low for it. A Perfume Detective is on the case. (I won’t reveal the perfume’s name till I secure every bottle remaining on the planet. Yes, greed!) Last summer, in Padova, Italy, I smelled a fragrance that was the closest I’ll probably ever come to my beloved, but discontinued, perfume — unless it’s reissued — but I could not get the name of the fragrance since the two people I smelled it on got lost in the crowd: a beautifully dressed woman walking her two dachshunds (also nicely appointed) and a man scurrying by my table as I had lunch at an outdoor cafe. I shared the pain of these close encounters with lots of people and one of those people, a Now Smell This reader in Europe, Dusan, said he would keep a nose out for the fragrance after I described it to him. I made one assumption about the mystery fragrance since I smelled it on a man and a woman in the space of a few hours: the scent must be new, circa spring/summer of 2007. About a month or so ago, Dusan recommended I sniff Courvoisier’s L’edition Imperiale; he felt it came close to the descriptions I gave him of the discontinued fragrance and the Padova perfume…

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Thierry Mugler Miroir Miroir / Mirror Mirror Collection ~ new fragrances

Robin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:26:04 +0000

Coming this winter from Thierry Mugler, Dare the Metamorphosis, consisting of a new color cosmetics line called The Art of Metamorphosis and five fragrances under the name Miroir Miroir. According to Joel Palix, president of Thierry Mugler Parfums, “We gave carte blanche to our perfumers to create something unusual and original”…

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L'Occitane Notre Flore (Myrte, Iris, Cedre & Neroli) ~ new fragrances

Robin — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:59:00 +0000

Coming in October, a new quartet of Eaux de Parfum from L’Occitane, inspired by the company’s Provencal roots and using ingredients from around the Mediterranean region. The Notre Flore collection includes:

Myrte (shown) takes its cues from the myrtle plant of Corsica, and includes notes of mandarin leaf, bilberry, sea spray, myrtle, rockrose and patchouli…

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Strange Invisible Perfumes Moon Garden, Courvoisier L'edition Imperiale ~ new fragrances

Robin — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:50:24 +0000

Strange Invisible Perfumes has launched Moon Garden, a “luxuriant bouquet of tuberose, jasmine and pikake…bejeweled with African resins”, and inspired by the night gardens popular in the Victorian era:

These exquisite gardens were cultivated for men and women to appreciate by moonlight in order to preserve their fair skin from the sun…

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NellyRodi Scent Factory: Part 1

Robin — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:13:54 +0000

Paris-based trend forecasting service NellyRodi was established in 1985, and is now jumping on a fragrance trend themselves with Scent Factory, a collection of 8 oriental-themed fragrances by noses from the major fragrance & flavor houses.

I will start right off by admitting that I was attracted to this line before I sniffed a single one of the perfumes. I like the concept. I like the packaging. I like the price — or at least, I’m not completely turned off by the price. I like the fact that I don’t have to spend hours on the internet searching for the fragrance notes or the names of the perfumers. NellyRodi is in the business of knowing what people like, and in this instance, at least, they’ve got me pegged. Almost pegged, anyway: oriental is not my favorite category. On to the scents…

Parfum 1 is Incense by Alexis Dadier of Mane, and features rosemary, cinnamon, nutmeg, incense, styrax, rose, vanilla, sandalwood. Incense starts as a sweet blend of herbal and resinous notes…

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