Issey Miyake will launch a scent by issey miyake (yes, that’s the name: a scent by issey miyake) in August. The new fragrance pays tribute to the “poetry of minimalism”, and was inspired by the smell of the mountains in Japan.
A scent by issey miyake is a woodsy-floral-green-citrus fragrance…
DSquared2 will launch He Wood Rocky Mountain Wood next month. The new fragrance is the first of a projected series of flankers to He Wood and She Wood under the name Nature Always Wins.
Like the earlier DSquared2 fragrances, He Wood Rocky Mountain Wood was developed by perfumer Daphne Bugey…
Kenzo has introduced warm weather versions of two of their popular fragrances for women:
Flower by Kenzo Spring Fragrance / Eau de Printemps 2009 (shown above left) is a new variation on 2000's Kenzo Flower, and follows last year's Winter Flowers. Developed by perfumer Alberto Morillas, the new scent is lighter and fresher than the original, and features notes of mandarin, litchi, ginger, violet, freesia and white musk…
Amour Le Parfum is Kenzo's new limited edition Parfum (extrait) version of 2006's Kenzo Amour. It was inspired by the “gold of the Orient”, if that helps you in any way, and was developed by perfumer Daphne Bugey, who along with Olivier Cresp created the original Amour fragrance.
Amour Le Parfum does for Amour what Kenzo Flower Oriental did for the original Flower: it sticks with the main theme but tempers the sweetness with a darker, woodier base. Amour's pale opening of cherry blossom and rice steam (other notes in the original: white tea, frangipani, heliotrope, thanaka wood, incense, vanilla and musk) is amped up and winterized with warmer notes (amber, incense, benzoin and patchouli). It is very dusty-resinous in the early stages, later, it's flatter and more ambery-woody…
Some of you may remember the hoops Kevin had to jump through in order to get his hands on Dsquared2's debut scent, He Wood, last year. Thanks to the glory that is Nordstrom, my story is happier, but less entertaining: I just walked in, picked up the tester, and asked them to make me a sample. Done.
I've never been able to make up my mind about He Wood. I like it well enough and find it pleasant to wear, but I'm not wildly enthusiastic: the dry down is maybe a bit more clean and a bit less wood than I'd prefer. Regardless, it's certainly not the über-masculine concoction you might expect from the name and the packaging; in fact, He Wood apparently has plenty of female fans already, and Dean and Dan Caten, the founders of the DSquared2 label, took pains to point out that they weren't after something über-feminine with She Wood…
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