Linari has launched Acqua Santa, the line’s fifth personal fragrance (see Notte Bianca, Angelo Di Fiume, Vista Sul Mare & Eleganza Luminosa).
Acqua Santa was developed by perfumer Maurice Roucel…
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Gianfranco Ferre In The Mood For Love ~ new fragrance
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…
Kenzo Air ~ fragrance review
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…
Frederic Malle Dans Tes Bras ~ fragrance review
Dans Tes Bras is the latest from Frederic Malle. It's the brand's 17th fragrance (time flies!) and the second from perfumer Maurice Roucel (he also developed Musc Ravageur). Dans Tes Bras aims to capture the scent of warm, salty skin — Malle described it as “saltiness and a hint of sunscreen” and noted that the “…idea was to depict intimacy – when you travel through it, you get the scent of skin.”*
Dans Tes Bras is, simply put, a strange fragrance. Search the online fragrance forums and you'll find lots of mushroom references; Perfume Posse described it as the “violets in the mushroom patch oddity that is Dans tes Bras” (but they meant that in a good way, mind you).
I'll start with the facts: Dans Tes Bras is a spicy woods scent…
When you travel through it, you get the scent of skin
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.
