Missoni has launched the Missoni Colori Collection, comprising four fragrances based on accords from their 2006 eponymous fragrance. The scents can be worn alone or layered:
Rosa (shown): “A romantic mix of voluminous peony, dewy rose and textural lily.”
Arancio: “An energising mix of sparkling mandarin, zesty-bitter orange and juicy kaki.”…
More online shopping ideas. If you missed the earlier posts, see also: Holiday fragrance gifts 2007, part 1, part 2, part 3.
I’ll take one: the Prada Infusion d’Iris coffret, with 100 ml of the Eau de Parfum and a scented candle on a metal base. It is hard to make out in the picture, but the candle is etched with the Prada logo. $150 at Neiman Marcus…
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles for holiday 2007 (if you missed the first post, see Bunch o' limited edition collector bottles):
At Nordstrom, Missoni's Acqua, “dressed in colorful Missoni fringe”. 100 ml Eau de Toilette for $85…
This July, Missoni will launch Acqua, a new fragrance “about the beach, about water and about summers in Sardinia”:
Acqua has top notes of bright bergamot, juicy melon, fresh grapefruit and sensual narcisse; a heart of velvety violet, voluminous peony, blue freesia and crisp muguet, and a drydown of Tuscan iris, jasmine and glimmering “sole,” said to represent “the warmth of the sun hitting the open water.”
Missoni Acqua will be available in 30, 50 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette…
Fruity floral is not my favorite fragrance category, so you will have to take my words with a larger than usual grain of salt…but here are two recent offerings from the perfume counters:
Délices de Cartier was launched earlier this year, and takes its name from a Cartier jewelry collection. The bottle, inspired by a Cartier brooch, is gorgeous (although oddly similar to last year’s MyQueen); the fragrance was created by Christine Nagel of Quest and features frozen morello cherry, bergamot, pink, white and yellow jasmine, pink pepper, freesia, violet, tonka beans, amber and sandalwood.
Délices starts with peppered citrus; the sweet cherry joins in shortly thereafter and intensifies over the next 30 minutes or so. The dry down is sheer, well-blended florals over amber and sandalwood. After an hour, the cherry is quite subdued, and the base is now powdery and warm. It is a sweet fragrance with vanillic undertones, but in keeping with its target market of women in their 30s it is not as heavily sugared as many of the fruity florals released this year, and the Eau de Toilette version which I am wearing today is very soft and light. Nicely done, even if it is not my sort of fragrance, and less foody than I expected…
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