Porsche Design Group will launch The Essence Summer Ice, a flanker to 2008’s Essence by Porsche Design, this month.
The woody citrus fragrance was designed by perfumer Anne Flipo…
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Ego Facto Piege a Filles, Sacre Coeur and Jamais le Dimanche ~ fragrance reviews
Ego Facto (Paris) was founded by Pierre Aulas, who is described on the Ego Facto website as a “free spirit and olfactory expert.” Aulas feels he is a “conductor” working with “virtuosos” (perfumers) in the creation of the Ego Facto fragrances. Aulas says: “Ego Facto is my tribute to self affirmation, to the acceptance of one’s own contradictions. It is a declaration of freedom.” I’m ‘translating’ that to mean Aulas develops perfumes that appeal to him — he doesn’t have to worry about pleasing a corporate board, focus groups, or design teams. I assume the Ego Facto perfumes smell just like Monsieur Aulas wants them to smell.
Piège à Filles (Girl Trap)
(citrus, heliotrope, almond, cumin, orange blossom, tobacco, musk, vetiver)
Piège à Filles smells like a distorted, old-fashioned barbershop powder; the scents of heliotrope, orange blossom, scorched almond and cumin mix to create a “difficult” accord…
Porsche Design Essence Intense ~ new fragrance
Porsche Design Group will follow up on last year’s Porsche Design Essence fragrance for men with Porsche Design Essence Intense:
…a reinterpretation of the first perfume of Porsche Design, intensified by the richness of woody-amber harmonies…
Nanette by Nanette Lepore, Bond Girl 007 Forever ~ new fragrances
Nanette Lepore will launch Nanette by Nanette Lepore (shown above left), the “grown-up Nanette Lepore fragrance”, in September.
Nanette by Nanette Lepore was developed by perfumer Anne Flipo; notes include pink pepper, rose, neroli, violet, muguet, amber, incense and cedar…
Yves Saint Laurent L’Homme & La Nuit de L’Homme ~ fragrance reviews
Yves Saint Laurent L’Homme debuted in 2006 and has been a best-seller ever since; it is one of many fragrances that prove I do NOT have my finger on the pulse of the perfume-buying public. (L’Homme bores me.) I even nodded off as I read L’Homme’s notes list: bergamot, calone, ginger, basil, cedar, violet leaf, vetiver and tonka bean. I predicted, accurately, that L’Homme’s basil and ginger would be negligible and its bergamot, violet leaf and tonka would dominate.
L’Homme was created by the triumvirate of Anne Flipo, Pierre Wargnye and Dominique Ropion. L’Homme starts with warm (lightly gingered) bergamot and ozone, and it moves rapidly into (light) green territory (a touch of violet leaf). L’Homme ends comfortably on a plump cushion of amber-cedar-vanilla/tonka. L’Homme smells like standard-issue men’s perfume…
