Mona di Orio has launched Jabu, a new fragrance for women. Jabu is short for Jubulani, the Zulu word for joy, and the fragrance has been created for Orange Babies, a charity working with HIV-infected mothers and children in Africa.
Joyful, Vivid and Vibrant…
Mona di Orio has launched Chamarré, the line’s fifth fragrance. It is described as a “a dark, sweet, woody oriental of immense warmth and seduction”:
Drawing inspiration from the word Chamarré, wich [sic] means “an explosion of colours and richly ornamented”…
Coming soon from Mona di Orio, Amyitis, a new fragrance for women:
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built to please the Queen Amyitis. The feeling of being in balance with yourself and nature, unburdened and peaceful, inspired Mona to create this fresh green fragrance. Like a walk in a magical garden where the colours and the perfumes are sublimated…
Today's edition of the UK Times Online includes a piece by columnist Bethan Cole about Mona di Orio, who spent 15 years working at perfumer Edmond Roudnitska's factory in the south of France:
Her three debut fragrances seem to colour the room in purple, lemon and blush. Lux is like a tart confit of lemon, a vaporous mania of effervescent citrus…
Another corpse flower has bloomed at Western Illinois U, & they're expecting 2 more... http://t.co/oRnROz6j (& they've got live video)