A Lab On Fire, a brand that is associated with the S-Perfume label, has launched their debut scent, L’Anonyme ou OP-1475-A…
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Gianfranco Ferre In The Mood For Love Tender, In The Mood For Love Man ~ new fragrances
Gianfranco Ferré has launched two new fragrances in the In The Mood For Love series.
In The Mood For Love Tender (shown above), for women, is a flanker to 2009′s In The Mood For Love…
Bvlgari Mon Jasmin Noir ~ fragrance review
Hey, Bvlgari Mon Jasmin Noir. Armani called. They want Idole d’Armani back. Wait — hold the phone! It’s Estée Lauder. They’re demanding their Sensuous Noir. Now all the lines are ringing, and it looks like it’s a bunch of celebuscents. They’re complaining you stole their jasmine-plum-sandalwood-patchouli secret formula!
O.K., maybe I’m not being fair. After all, I chucked my sample of Idole d’Armani in the garbage a long time ago, and it’s been months since I smelled Sensuous Noir, and that was on a hot day in a mall in Billings, Montana. And the celebuscents? I really try not to be a snob, but if Robin doesn’t give them the green light in a review, I mostly stay away.
I also admit to having a misguided fantasy about how perfumers work. In my dream world, a perfumer — let’s say Sophie Labbé, who had a hand in both Bvlgari Jasmin Noir and Mon Jasmin Noir — pushes open her casement window. She inhales the summer breeze of Grasse, France, and asks herself, “What work of art will I make today? Bvlgari, a luxury company, has asked me to create a light fragrance based on jasmine as a flanker to Jasmin Noir. I know, I’ll devise a fragrance that evokes the sensual languor of an evening in the Mediterranean, but is airy enough — like a long ago, romantic memory — to be enjoyed during the day…”
Jimmy Choo by Jimmy Choo ~ perfume review
As I’ve mentioned here numerous times, I know little enough about fashion, and that includes shoes. Manolo Blahnik and Jimmy Choo, I take it, are the big names, information which probably filtered into my general consciousness via Sex and the City even though I only saw the show a handful of times. A quick check on Google reveals that neither of them have the famous red soles, though — that’s apparently Christian Louboutin. There, now we’ve exhausted nearly everything I know about shoes.
So Jimmy Choo, as I understand it, does not own any portion of the company that bears his name, although he still designs some of the footwear. It’s owned by a private equity company, and Tamara Mellon (who “starred” in the ad campaign for the perfume) runs it; she is presumably responsible for the run-of-the-mill modern fruity chypre (i.e., floriental) that now bears the Jimmy Choo name…
Bvlgari Mon Jasmin Noir ~ new fragrance
Bvlgari has launched Mon Jasmin Noir, a new flanker to 2008′s Jasmin Noir. The new perfume for women will be fronted by actress Kirsten Dunst…
