Posted by Angela
on
20 May 2013
My garden is crazy with roses these days. They splash pink and mauve near the street and waft fruity, peppery fragrance to my neighbors’ porches. I’m greedy with them, and four vases of Madame Isaac Pereire, La Reine Victoria, and Jude the Obscure in varying stages of decrepitude crowd the dining room table (I love their perfume best just as they start to shrivel), and another few vases are crammed on the mantle.
But other than on the stem, the scent of roses doesn’t move me. Sure, I love the occasional spritz of Guerlain Nahéma when I’m feeling over the top, and a dose of Parfum d’Empire Eau Suave is marvelously fresh on a warm day, but otherwise rose can feel institutional and even dowdy. But now, when my garden is flush with roses, it seems right to revisit two often overlooked rose-centered fragrances: Lancôme Miracle and Estée Lauder Intuition…
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Posted by Robin
on
3 May 2013
Estee Lauder will launch Modern Muse, a new fragrance for women, in September. Modern Muse is reportedly the brand’s “first major women’s scent statement” since 2003′s Beyond Paradise and aims to “cast women as stars in their own lives”…
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Posted by Robin
on
22 April 2013
Estee Lauder has launched Pleasures Pop, a new fragrance for women. Pleasures Pop is a limited edition flanker to 1995′s Pleasures, and is being released in conjunction with a limited edition nail polish and lip gloss…
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Posted by Robin
on
13 February 2013
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 Salvatore Ferragamo, a solid perfume compact in the Signorina fragrance…
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Posted by Robin
on
12 February 2013
Estee Lauder will launch Amber Mystique, a new followup to 2011′s unisex Wood Mystique. The oriental amber is meant to be ‘darkly ornate’…
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