Below the jump, a short (about 4 minutes) documentary on the work Donna Karan's DKNY brand is doing with CARE to help provide financial opportunities for women. The model is Angela Lindvall. The vanilla fragrance she talks about is the original Pure DKNY.

From Clinique, the latest iteration of their Happy in Bloom fragrance: "New design, same springy feel. Our floral favorite returns with a fresh new look, at a perfect time to share the happiness. Enjoy the feeling of a world suddenly in bloom. Here for a limited time to make your world sweeter, softer and brighter." $46 for 50 ml at Nordstrom...

Demeter has launched two new fragrances, Barbados Cherry and Caravan NYC...

Donna Karan has collaborated with Beverly Hills jeweler Martin Katz to create a limited edition collector bottle for DKNY Golden Delicious. It costs one million dollars, and that appears to be the name of the bottle as well. The design was inspired by the skyline of New York City, and the proceeds — assuming there are any — will benefit Action Against Hunger...

Singer Mary J Blige will launch My Life Blossom, a new fragrance for women, next month. My Life Blossom is a flanker to last year's My Life, and like that scent was made in collaboration with Carol's Daughter. It will debut on HSN August 13th. One dollar will be donated to FFAWN (The Foundation for the Advancement of Women Now) for every bottle sold...

International Flavors & Fragrances (IFF) has created BlackRider, a new limited edition fragrance to benefit The Watermill Center ("Watermill is a laboratory for performance founded by visual artist Robert Wilson as a unique environment for young and emerging artists from around the world to explore new ideas."). BlackRider was named for the musical fable The Black Rider...

Indie niche line Smell Bent has launched The Pink Party, a new fragrance in support of Elyse Walker's Pink Party:

when Elyse Walker asked us to create a perfume for her annual Pink Party, we were ecstatic! not only is she one of the chicest women in town, she’s also one of the most generous. over the last 6 years, her work has helped raise over 5.5 million dollars for the Cedars-Sinai Women's Cancer Program at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute...

Justin Bieber will launch his first prestige perfume (as you might remember, he has already gotten his toes wet with scented dogtags), Someday, in June. The fruity gourmand scent is geared towards teenagers...

From Maison Francis Kurkdjian, the Maison Francis Kurkdjian Limited Crystal Edition Fragrance: "A sensual and extraordinary Extrait de Parfum (Egyptian jasmine, Damascus rose, South African marigold, Yemeni frankincense tears and Malaysian gurjum balsam)." The bottles are Saint Louis crystal; a total of twenty 200 ml bottles were made... ]]> 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 Maison Francis Kurkdjian, the Maison Francis Kurkdjian Limited Crystal Edition Fragrance: “A sensual and extraordinary Extrait de Parfum (Egyptian jasmine, Damascus rose, South African marigold, Yemeni frankincense tears and Malaysian gurjum balsam).” The bottles are Saint Louis crystal; a total of twenty 200 ml bottles were made…

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Le Labo is making their city-exclusive fragrance Gaiac 10, normally sold only in Tokyo, widely available for a limited time to benefit the Japanese Red Cross:

Gaiac 10, our Tokyo city exclusive perfume, will exceptionally be available in our NY, LA, London, and internet stores until May 15th, 2011...