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Beyonce Pulse Summer Edition ~ new fragrance

Robin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:54:51 +0000

Beyoncé will launch Beyoncé Pulse Summer Edition, a new fruity floral flanker to Beyoncé Pulse…

Four celebrity perfumes: Taylor Swift Wonderstruck, Beyonce Pulse, Jessica Simpson I Fancy You & Sean John Empress

Robin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:06:21 +0000

Angie’s post yesterday on celebrity fragrances she’d like to see reminded me that I have fallen woefully behind this year on reviewing celebrity fragrances — the real ones that she’d rather not see. So, in the interest of catching up before it’s too late, here are four celebrity fragrance reviews, listed in order from not so very bad to not so very wonderful. In other words, we’re going to start out lukewarm and things are going to go downhill from there; consider yourself warned.

Taylor Swift Wonderstruck

I was wonderstruck reading the recent New Yorker profile on country pop star Taylor Swift. I had heard her name, but had no idea — number 7 on Forbes’ list of Most Powerful Celebrities? More albums sold in the last five years than any other musician? Who knew? Anyway, her debut perfume came out this fall under a licensing deal with Elizabeth Arden, and it’s about what you’d expect: a “charming and sparkling surprise of vibrant fruits, kissed by a bouquet of soft petals and a touch of sweet indulgence.” In other words, it’s a sweet-ish fruity floral with plenty of vanilla in the base, along the lines of Britney Spears Fantasy, and while there’s not much to distinguish it from the two bazillion other variations on Britney Spears Fantasy, it’s perfectly wearable and it’s reasonably age-appropriate for the target market…

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Beyonce Pulse ~ new perfume

Robin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 14:36:30 +0000

Beyoncé will launch Pulse, a new fragrance for women, in September. Pulse is the singer’s third fragrance (it follows Heat and Heat Rush) and reportedly reflects “Beyonce’s incredible energy and powerful femininity”…

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Derek who?

Robin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:16:13 +0000

Ranking second with $27 million in sales is Driven by Derek Jeter.

— Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds was the best-selling celebrity perfume last year, but Derek Jeter was number 2. Who knew? Number 3 was Beyoncé Heat. Read more at Top-Selling Celebrity Perfumes at Forbes.

Without the rules of society

Robin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 18:34:34 +0000

Perfumer Honorine Blanc talks about Beyoncé's new Heat Rush perfume.

Beyonce Heat Rush ~ new perfume

Robin — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 11:30:44 +0000

Beyoncé will launch Heat Rush, a new perfume for women, in February of next year. Heat Rush is a daytime variation on the “overtly sexy” Beyoncé Heat fragrance which launched earlier this year…

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Beyonce Heat Ultimate Elixir ~ new perfume

Robin — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:57:25 +0000

Beyoncé will follow her debut fragrance for women, Beyoncé Heat, with a limited edition flanker, Beyoncé Heat Ultimate Elixir.

Heat Ultimate Elixir is a more concentrated variation..

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Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2010, part 10

Robin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:14:20 +0000

More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.

From Marc Jacobs, Daisy in the Pop Art Edition, due to launch in August…

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72,000 bottles

Robin — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:21:16 +0000

[Terry, CEO of Macy's] Lundgren shared other tidbits, such as the fact that Macy’s sold $3 million worth of Beyoncé Heat, Beyoncé Knowles’ debut fragrance, from early February to early March, and 72,000 bottles during the hour she signed autographs in Herald Square.

— From Lundgren Talks Expansion for Macy's at Women's Wear Daily.

The challenge is for it not to get too hot

Robin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:52:11 +0000

Beyoncé in the "making of" for the Beyoncé Heat commercial (you can see a 30 second version here, and a 1 minute version here).