Dolce & Gabbana have launched the sixth fragrance in the D&G Anthology series, La Force 11 (above left). Like the others in the series, it was inspired by a Tarot card, in this case, card 11 or La Force (Strength in the Rider Waite deck).

La Force 11 is a unisex floriental with notes of cinnamon, allspice...

Fragrance folks have griped for years about non-stop perfume launches; it’s impossible to smell everything that’s released. Yet…we try. I’m often annoyed at the time I spend: “begging” for samples at department stores; ordering samples; STORING samples; and wearing fragrance sample after fragrance sample (a never-ending “activity”). Even in this economy, new perfumes keep coming, and I’m irritated! It’s even worse somehow when ONE company releases many new perfumes all at once. It’s like asking a friend who’s a baker to bring a cake to your dinner party, and he arrives with five cakes — and expects everyone to sample EACH one.

I’m suffering from perfume overload, perfume indigestion.

Dolce & Gabbana’s D & G division is launching five new perfumes in a collection called The D & G Fragrance Anthology. The fragrances are named after tarot cards: Le Bateleur 1, L’Imperatrice 3, L’Amoureaux 6, La Roue de la Fortune 10 and La Lune 18. It's easy to remember those names, right? And before I forget, each scent is represented by a naked model or two...

Dolce & Gabbana's D&G line will launch The D&G Fragrance Anthology in September. The five fragrances, Le Bateleur 1, L’Imperatrice 3, L’Amoureaux 6, La Roue de la Fortune 10 and La Lune 18, were "inspired by different tarot cards, each with a distinct identity and represented by a different model, some of them iconic and all of them naked in the advertising".

Le Bateleur 1 (shown above right) ~ the ad features Tyson Ballou, the fragrance has aromatic and aquatic notes, cedar and vetiver...