Thierry Mugler will launch Angel Aqua Chic and Alien Aqua Chic in March...

Count me as a Diane von Furstenberg fan from way back. I read her beauty book/memoir when I was in college and felt we must be sisters. Maybe I didn’t marry a prince or launch a fashion empire, but I sure understood her struggles with curly, frizzy hair. When she re-launched her clothing business, I snapped up silk jersey dresses when I could, and now I have seven of them, plus two skirts and a blouse. The flattering cuts, the easy fit, the exuberant prints — I loved it all. Naturally, I dogged perfume counters when Diane Von Furstenberg Diane came out. Verdict? Sadly, not for me.

Diane von Furstenberg describes Diane as a "woody floral" fragrance and says it is “powerful and seductive, without being aggressive.” Perfumer Aurélien Guichard developed Diane, and notes include frangipani, violet, patchouli, myrrh, and musk. That list of notes is seductive, seemingly paving the way for a fragrance with an oriental twist: alluring, earthy, and feminine. Not so on skin. In a nutshell, Diane smells to me like a rose chypre someone tried to wash off with the lily of the valley soap normally kept for show in the guest bathroom...

Trussardi has launched a new fragrance duo in honor of their 100th anniversary:

Trussardi is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2011...

Model and television host Heidi Klum will launch Shine, her debut fragrance for women, in September. Shine is a floriental, and was made under arrangements with Coty...

Kenzo will launch Madly Kenzo, a new feminine fragrance, in August. The floral perfume is reportedly bold and ultra-sensual, and is intended for 'madly free' women. The bottle was designed by Ron Arad and resembles his Unidentified Fragrance Object for Kenzo...

Davidoff will launch Champion Energy in July. The new fragrance for men is a flanker to last year's Champion...

Diane von Furstenberg will launch Diane, a new woody floral fragrance for women, in October. The scent is meant to be "powerful and seductive, without being aggressive"...

The new Douglas Hannant perfume is the first scent Robert Piguet has done for an outside designer, and their first new (as opposed to relaunched) fragrance since the 1960s. It seems a logical extension for the Piguet house, given that by now, they've probably done all they can do with the brand's back catalog — since 2006, they've relaunched Baghari, Visa, Cravache, Futur and Calypso, and while they've generally done a great job (no small thanks to perfumer Aurelien Guichard), to my mind, not one of those can touch what they already had on the market, namely Fracas and Bandit.

Douglas Hannant, for those of you who had never heard of him — I hadn't — is known as a socialite's designer; he's been described as a "go-to-guy for trust-fund babies, fashionable philanthropists and other Palm Beach/Park Avenue regulars".¹ When I read that, I imagined something heavy and expensive-smelling, like David Yurman Eau de Parfum, but what they've come up with instead is a modern version of Fracas:

This is a fresher, younger Fracas. We stayed with the same floral base and added pear to cut the sweetness at the top. —Frederic Anderson, Douglas Hannant's partner²

The only surprise there, I suppose, is that Piguet hadn't done such a thing already...

Robert Piguet will launch Douglas Hannant de Robert Piguet, the debut fragrance for New York-based designer Douglas Hannant, in February. It is the first original fragrance from Piguet since the 1960s...

Nina Ricci will launch Ricci Ricci Dancing Ribbon in March of next year. The new fragrance for women is a limited edition flanker to 2009's Ricci Ricci:

She is modern, mischievous and audacious...