Gianfranco Ferré has launched In The Mood For Love, a new fruity floral fragrance for women that celebrates love at first sight.
In The Mood For Love was developed by perfumer Maurice Roucel; the notes include bitter orange, magnolia, white rose, amber and wood…
When I reviewed Mark Buxton's Wood & Absinth last week, several people mentioned another vetiver + anise fragrance, Kenzo Air (or Kenzoair, as I believe the brand prefers). How I made it all this time without smelling Kenzo Air is a bit of a mystery to me, but I suppose the name “Air” was not all that appealing? Obviously I needed to smell it, and since it didn't seem to be available locally (and it's too cold to go outside anyway), I ordered some right away. I'd like to point out that I made it a full 13 days into 2009 before breaking rule no. 1 (or no. 2? I can't remember) and buying something unsniffed, but this was cheap enough that it wouldn't have killed me if I'd hated it. And lo and behold, everyone who commented was right: it's wonderful.
Kenzo launched Air in 2003; it was intended as…
… a breath of fresh air… it lets a man discover his inner child. The fragrance denotes an elegant, masculine presence, awakening childhood sensations and familiar impressions, shaking things up and reinventing them…
Malle holds aloft a phial of the latest opus, Maurice Roucel's Dans Tes Bras, which has taken 18 months to develop, and launches this month. It smells like a little bunch of violets rubbed against skin: a gorgeous fluttering bouquet of violet, iris, jasmine and a touch of bergamot. "The whole idea was to depict intimacy – when you travel through it, you get the scent of skin," he explains, saying that it is comparable to Guerlain's 1906 classic, Après l'Ondée.
— Columnist Bethan Cole talks to Frédéric Malle in Heaven scent: The best independent perfumers at The Independent.
Coming in September from Frederic Malle will be Dans Tes Bras (translation: in your arms), a new fragrance for women (and their first since 2005's Carnal Flower) by perfumer Maurice Roucel, who also created the cult classic Musc Ravageur.
Dans Tes Bras is a spicy woods fragrance with notes of salicylates, violet, clove, frankincense and cashmeran…
Here are more details on Lolita Lempicka's latest fragrance, Fleur de Corail / Coral Flower.
As previously announced, it is a “sister scent” to 2006's L de Lolita Lempicka and was developed by perfumer Maurice Roucel…
