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Givenchy Dahlia Noir ~ perfume review
A fantasy flower—The first fragrance developed under the creative direction of Riccardo Tisci, Dahlia Noir embodies the mysterious, singular radiance of a woman’s graceful power. Dahlia Noir is both feminine and sensual thanks to its floral and powdery facets, but also powerful and captivating with its woody base notes. A Couture fragrance all in pure lines, a return to supreme luxury. The quintessence of the Givenchy Style.1
At times, it is almost too perfect (or just boring?) how neatly fragrance brands — and my tastes — stay inside their boxes. As I’ve said here umpteen and a half times, I don’t follow fashion, but I do think nearly anybody who pays any attention at all to perfume could smell yesterday’s subject, Prada Candy, and today’s, the new Dahlia Noir from Givenchy, and say which was the Prada and which was the Givenchy, even if they’d read nothing whatsoever about either fragrance. And I’m just as predictable to anyone who reads here regularly: I didn’t expect to like the Prada, but I did, and I didn’t expect to like the Givenchy,2 and I didn’t.
Likewise, I loved the silly Prada Candy commercial, but the commercial for Dahlia Noir left me mostly cold — the shots of Mariacarla Boscono’s dress billowing in the wind are mesmerizing, but most of the rest of it looks like it’s trying way too hard to be sexy. The parts that weren’t trying to be sexy (those long moments when she’s just walking across the floor) struck me as plain dull.
I might say the same for Dahlia Noir’s juice…
Very severe but super dreamy
Model Mariacarla Boscono for Givenchy Dahlia Noir. According to Givenchy artistic director Riccardo Tisci,
I wanted to do something that really represents my woman, who is very defined after six years. She’s masculine but feminine. Very romantic but at the same time very dark. And very severe but super dreamy. All these kinds of opposite things. (via NMDaily)
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2011, part 11
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.
No, your eyes don’t deceive you, and yes, it’s true, it isn’t really a collector bottle. But so far, we haven’t seen the need to maintain a separate category for toy trucks, and hey, we have to post about it somewhere…
Givenchy Hot Couture ~ fragrance review
Hot Couture has hovered at the edge of my fragrance consciousness for years, but I never actually tried it until this week, when I was feeling particularly jaded at Sephora and I wanted to smell something, anything that wasn’t a summer limited edition. And now that I think about it, I’m intrigued by this fragrance: Hot Couture has been holding its place in the Givenchy section of perfume counters since it was released in 2000, yet it’s such a “neither/nor” fragrance for the venerable brand. It’s neither Audrey Hepburn nor Liv Tyler, neither the classic L’Interdit nor the blandly trendy Very Irresistible and all its flankers. Nor is it one of Givenchy’s coming-on-strong fragrances of the 1990s, like Amarige or Organza. What is it?
In Givenchy’s official (and generally meaningless) description, “Hot Couture is a creation that aims to complement the woman’s body, combining sensuality and glamour with refinement and elegance. Very fashionable, the Hot Couture woman is both refined and original, slightly provocative and so uniquely charismatic.” Hot Couture is “a voluptuous fragrance with spicy and woody notes (raspberry nectar, magnolia, amber-vetiver),” and it was developed by perfumers Alberto Morillas and Jacques Cavallier. Its title is a silly pun on “haute couture,” and the bottle’s logo looks like a dressmaker’s label with pinked edges. (The older bottle design bore an image resembling a vintage fashion sketch.)
Hot Couture starts off with a flashy burst of raspberry and vanilla…
