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13 May 2013
“The idea is that you take it, and you smell it, and you walk around with it and just imagine it,” explained Loboda. The formula is such a costly blend of tobacco, tuberose and ambrox that Firmenich has no plans to sell it.
— Artist Maria Loboda, talking about her installation "Smoking Room in a Private Palais in Brussels as Seen From the Entrance, 1905,” at the Frieze Art Fair on Randalls Island in New York, and the accompanying fragrance developed by perfumer Honorine Blanc. Read more at An Artist Recreates a Smoking Room With Flowers and Perfume at the New York Times.
Posted by Robin
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12 April 2013
Michael Kors will launch a trio of fragrances in conjunction with his upcoming color cosmetics line, due to debut in August: Sporty Citrus, Sexy Amber and Glam Jasmine. The fragrances were reportedly inspired by the designers “favorite scent memories”…
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28 September 2012
Bath & Body Works introduces Forever Red, a new fragrance to debut in November.
Posted by Robin
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30 August 2012
[Note: regular readers of Now Smell This, at least, those that don't skip all the celebrity perfume reviews, have already read this story so many times that a summary should suffice: Fame is exactly what any long-time watcher of the celebrity fragrance market would have expected it to be: a sweetish fruity floral of no particular distinction. Still, it's wearable enough, and even after spraying it on paper, I was willing to try it on skin, which is more than I can say for Selena Gomez Eau de Parfum.]
As I’ve said here before, I am missing some portion of the gene for true fandom.1 There are famous people whose work I enjoy and whose careers I follow with some interest, but I’m not interested in meeting any of them, I don’t much care about their private lives, and I certainly would not buy a perfume just because some famous person’s name was on it. Maybe because of that, or maybe because I’m rarely more than vaguely familiar with the celebrities who land perfume contracts, I look on the celebrity fragrance market with an attitude somewhere between bemusement and detachment…
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Posted by Robin
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28 August 2012
Diane von Furstenberg will launch Love Diane next month. The new fragrance for women features gourmand accents and is meant to be sexy and seductive…
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