Posted by Angela
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5 October 2009
For me this will be the winter of Comme des Garçons Daphne Eau de Parfum. Within half an hour of a dab from a sample tube, I was at my computer ordering a bottle, budget be damned. Its warmth, complexity, and femme fatale vibe were irresistible. At the same time, I think hordes of perfume enthusiasts will detest Daphne. Its sweet thickness might drive comparisons to marshmallow fluff and talcum powder. But I’m smitten.
Perfumer Antoine Lie created Daphne using notes of bitter orange, incense, saffron, rose centifolia, Tunisian jasmine, tuberose, iris, patchouli, oud, amber, and vanilla. Essentially, Daphne is an oriental scent featuring tuberose with all the baroque fixings. It’s named for Daphne Guinness, a British celebrity who seems to have earned her fame mainly through eccentric chic and a prominent family.
Daphne opens with bitter orange and tuberose…
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Posted by Robin
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8 June 2009
Socialite, heiress and fashion icon (she has been described as the best dressed woman in the world) Daphne Guinness will launch Daphne, her debut fragrance, in September. The scent was made in collaboration with Comme des Garçons. Guinness noted that perfume “…takes you away from the everyday and you are transported to something in your past. It’s a very mysterious thing…”
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Posted by Robin
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21 May 2009
Ermenegildo Zegna has launched Zegna Colonia, the line’s latest fragrance for men:
With Zegna Colonia, the brand unveils its personal vision of ‘la Dolce Vita’. A parenthesis of peaceful happiness bathed in the warm embrace of the Italian sun. A snapshot of an elegant silhouette and the entrancing eyes of a man dressed in white linen, captured in the space of an instant…
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Posted by Robin
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27 February 2009
Salvador Dali will launch Black Sun Sport, a flanker to 2007's Black Sun for men. Like Black Sun, Black Sun Sport was developed by perfumer Antoine Lie, and the new scent is “designed to accompany the modern man in his active, sporting life”.
The woody citrus fragrance features notes of yuzu, nutmeg, geranium, cedar, amber and musk…
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Posted by Robin
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8 January 2009
Cerruti will launch L'Essence de Cerruti, a new modern musky leather scent for men, in February. L'Essence de Cerruti "caters to a more sophisticated, classic taste than Cerruti’s previous fragrance, 1881 Black".
The fragrance was developed by perfumer Antoine Lie, and the notes include bergamot, white pepper, leather, saffron, sensuous woods, musk, amber and cedar…
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