Posted by Robin
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27 November 2011
Our series of holiday gift posts continues; today we’ve got travel sizes, coffrets and roll-ons — and we’ll have more of the same coming up next week. If you missed part 1 (scented body products), you can find it here.
From Chantecaille, new travel roll-ons, each in its own case: “Chantecaille’s beautiful signature scents now have convenience and portability. The elegant, silk-screened glass tube arrives in a chic white faux-croc pouch.” $68 for 8 ml, available in Petales, Kalimantan, Vetyver, Tiare and Frangipane. At Neiman Marcus…
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Posted by Robin
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19 October 2011
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 Chantecaille, special order bottles decorated with crystals: “This season Chantecaille introduces hand-decorated Swarovski® embellished fragrance bottles. Exclusive and luxurious, these bottles are the creations of the renowned artist Cimon. His fanciful Swarovski® adorned sculptures are collected all over the world. Like a couture gown, each exquisitely decorated bottle may be special ordered in the [sic] and will be received in four weeks.” Available in all of the Chantecaille fragrances; Frangipani is shown. $600 each at Neiman Marcus…
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Posted by Robin
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12 April 2011
I used to think there were some notes that simply couldn’t be done to death. The fragrance industry has proven me wrong on that score. Raise your hand if you’d just as soon not see another new oud fragrance for a few years?
Vetiver hasn’t yet reached that stage.1 We’ve seen a slow but steady stream of new vetivers over the last couple years, but nothing like the fever-pitch rate of new ouds. On the other hand, you know, there are lots of vetivers out there already, and vetiver, like oud, has a tendency to dominate whatever composition it’s in. So the bar is set high for a new vetiver fragrance.
Today, I’m looking at new(-ish) vetivers from Escentric Molecules and Chantecaille. Many perfumistas already know about Escentric Molecules, the niche line of perfumer Geza Shoen. They’ve released three fragrance duos, each consisting of a single note diluted in alcohol, and a fragrance built around that single note. The third duo, which debuted last year, features vetiver. Molecule 03 (the fragrance I’m counting as a half in the title since it isn’t really what you’d call a finished fragrance) consists of vetiveryle acetate diluted in alcohol, nothing else. As with Molecule 01 (iso e super) and Molecule 02 (ambroxan), it’s probably not the most cost-effective way to get yourself a straight-up aroma chemical, and I’ve always wondered why they don’t release the Molecule fragrances in very small sizes…
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Posted by Robin
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4 August 2010
US-based beauty brand Chantecaille will launch a new trio of fragrances for women, Kalimantan, Pétales and Vetyver, later this month:
Kalimantan (shown) ~ “Warm, woodsy, sensual, rich, and deeply exotic. Kalimantan is a bold, intense fragrance…”
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Posted by Robin
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11 July 2007
If you love jasmine but find that fragrances like Serge Lutens A La Nuit or yesterday’s Jasmin by Bruno Acampora are a bit more jasmine than you bargained for (especially in the full heat of summer), there are plenty of lighter options. My own perfect summer jasmine is L’Artisan’s lovely if ephemeral Thé Pour Un Été, and then there is Annick Goutal’s fizzy Le Jasmin, or the sparkling and green Jasmin Vert by Miller Harris. For just a whisper of scent, there is the very soft Jasmin by Les Bains du Marais.
Another summery option is Le Jasmin by Chantecaille, developed by perfumer Frank Voelkl and launched in 2003. The notes include mimosa, magnolia, jasmine, tuberose, ylang ylang, amber and oakmoss…
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