Posted by Robin
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22 January 2010
Halle Berry’s debut fragrance, Halle by Halle Berry, was something of a love-it-or-hate-it among perfumistas, but it did well enough on the mass market shelves.1 Not surprisingly, Coty has the first flanker out in short order: Halle Pure Orchid. From the looks of things, they just took all the original publicity shots and tinted everything, including the sand and the sky, a nice pale-ish purple.
The scent follows about the same trajectory. Remember how the somewhat-difficult gourmand Covet (Sarah Jessica Parker) turned into the crowd-pleasing purple floralated flanker Covet Pure Bloom? That’s about what has happened here…
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Posted by Robin
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8 January 2010
Halle Berry has launched Pure Orchid, her second fragrance for women:
Beauty blooms within. A seductive, sensual experience awaits you with Halle Pure Orchid…
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Posted by Robin
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28 September 2009
Jesús Del Pozo has launched Halloween Kiss Sexy, a fruity floral gourmand follow-up to last year’s Halloween Kiss:
KISS Sexy is a fragrance full of nuances: live freshness, floral and woody, but above all it is carnal and sensual…
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Posted by Robin
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3 July 2009
Kylie Minogue will launch Inverse, her first fragrance for men, in August. The new scent is for “all facets of a man…day or night” and the tag line is “Two facets. One scent”. The fragrance is fronted by model Andrés Velencoso Segura; you can see the video promo for Inverse here.
Inverse features notes of lavender…
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Posted by Kevin
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6 May 2009
Paco Rabanne 1 Million
Paco Rabanne 1 Million debuted last August in Europe, but it’s never “officially” launched in the U.S. (though it can be purchased at online discounters here). 1 Million was developed by perfumers Christophe Raynaud, Olivier Pescheux and Michel Girard, and it contains grapefruit, blood orange, peppermint, rose, cinnamon, “spice,” blond leather, white woods, amberketal (synthetic ambergris) and patchouli. It’s difficult to review 1 Million because the fragrance is so well blended. Imagine painting precise squares of color (cool purple, faded pink, creamy green and sunny yellow) side by side onto a white canvas using acrylic pigments, then taking a wet brush and running it thru the middle of all the squares — blurring all the colors with one strong sweep of the brush. The resulting image of this rapid “mixing” is like 1 Million: gray (indistinct) in the center but with traces of residual color (individual notes) around the edges.
1 Million smells like “sugar and spice” with a touch of lavender-orange blossom and vanillic amber. It also smells like an upscale (slightly retro) barbershop…
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