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July 3, 2009

Celine Ellena & Thierry Hernandez Mix & Blend Bombay Bahia for Bombay Sapphire {Fragrant Recipe} {Fragrance News}


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Perfume and cuisine, perfume and beverages, the possibilities are endless as taste and smell are so inter-dependent. Gourmand perfumes, fragrances with a wine or spirits note tentalize the senses. Perfumer Jean-Michel Duriez composed once a cocktail directly inspired by Joy by Patou. More recently mixologist Tony Conigliaro devised a cocktail based on Chanel No 5. In September, visitors to Paris will be able to taste an original concoction called Bombay Bahia created by perfumer Céline Ellena of Charabot together with the director of the bar of the Plaza Athénée in Paris, Thierry Hernandez...

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Juicy Couture Couture Couture (2009) {New Perfume}


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Juicy Couture have briefly announced that the brand will introduce their third feminine fragrance following Juicy Couture and Viva La Juicy this summer. In August 2009, expect to see a brand new scent called Couture Couture. Yes, you have to say it twice.

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Helena Rubinstein Wanted: Fronted by Demi Moore, Composed by Benaim & Ropion {New Perfume} {Celebrity Fragrance}


Demi-Moore-Wanted.jpgHelena Rubinstein will release a new perfume called Wanted named after their makeup line. Actress Demi Moore who is already their spokesperson for their beauty products will also be the face of Wanted. The perfume is described as a composition centering around magnolia...

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Acqua di Parma Magnolia Nobile (2009)

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Yves Saint Laurent Parisienne (2009): Fronted by Kate Moss, Composed by Grojsman & Labbe {New Perfume}


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What started as an internet saga tracking down some of the bits and pieces of news that came to see the light of day around the upcoming Parisienne by Yves Saint Laurent, has now become more widely distributed news.

The perfume reportedly incorporates an urban olfactory edge with notes of vinyl and gloss in the top to refer to nail polish and the scent of cosmetics, but also the perfume rendition of a metallic stiletto heel on asphalt....

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Helena Rubinstein Wanted: Fronted by Demi Moore, Composed by Benaim & Ropion

Acqua di Parma Magnolia Nobile (2009)

Sahlini Femininde (2009)

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July 2, 2009

Diane von Furstenberg D Gets Evaluated by Passersby in New York, and Not in a Good Way {The 5th Sense in the News}


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Designer Diane von Furstenberg pumps her perfume in the air in the Meatpacking district in NYC, gets irate feedback from passersby and neighbors who are less than enamored with her signature scent D. The epithets soon rain...


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Perfume Used as Weapon by Serial Offender in Central London {The 5th Sense in the News}


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The London Daily News reports that a man is using perfume as a pretext to lure in his unassuming victims in central London. We had heard about not infrequent street mugging in London lately, but this is a creative twist on the technique deployed for the attack.

"Reports are flooding into the London Daily News crime desk of serial attacks by a man around central London offering to females on the street to either buy or try or a new perfume.  

The perfume is in fact a highly toxic liquid, and is used by the male described to be around six foot well dressed and with an eastern European accent, to blind the victim and then steal whatever possessions they may have."

London on Alert with new "perfume squirting" crime...

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Acqua di Parma Magnolia Nobile (2009) {New Perfume}


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With Magnolia Nobile, the new fragrance from Acqua di Parma to be introduced in September 2009, one is invited to take a moment of respite by lake Como and to inhale the scent of magnolias that grow in the peaceful gardens in the area. The key words to contemplate here are contained in the oft-quoted Baudelairean verse that reads like a motto: Everything is but luxury, calm and voluptuousness. The white floral trail of the composition is said to sign the presence of a woman who epitomizes femininity and refinement. The fragrance "targets" - a word that is probably too direct here - an exclusive clientele as alluded to in the ad copy,...

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Sahlini Femininde (2009) {New Perfume}


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Perfume brand Sahlini founded in 2006 is continuing to expand its portfolio. After the initial La Femme and L'Homme followed by La Femme en Noir and L'Homme en Noir which were collector versions of the originals with a slightly tweaked formula of more intense jasmine and patchouli notes for the women's scent, the latest fragrance is called Fémininde...

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July 1, 2009

Yves Rocher So Elixir (2009): The Essence of Femininity {New Perfume}


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Yves Rocher is preparing for its next major feminine launch called So Elixir. The woody-floral perfume is based on a white floral accord and was created with 6 hands by perfumers Marie Salamagne, Olivier Cresp and Jacques Cavallier of Firmenich. The advertising for the fragrance is uncharacteristically seductive for the brand, which seems to want combine here the allure of natural ingredients with a sophisticated imagery.

Let me state from the outset how I love the fact that the Yves Rocher press release details the contributions of each perfumer. This is my idea of where perfumery ought to be headed in the future whereby people discuss the creative process in a non-infantilizing manner and credits are rolled. In this example, it sounds the way screenplay writers detail their contributions....

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Halston Woman & Halston Man (2009): Perfume Serves as Inspiration for Marios Schwab's Pure Metallic {New Fragrances} {Fashion Notes}


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The Halston brand have revived their perfume classics under the aegis of Elizabeth Arden. The original Halston for Women issued in 1975 and Halston Z-14 (1976) will be introduced after having undergone a modern adaptation work by perfumer Carlos Benaïm of IFF who collaborated with Bernard Chant on the original feminine scent....

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June 30, 2009

Nina Ricci Ricci Ricci (2009): Another Belle-de-Nuit Sillage {New Perfume}


Ricci-Ricci-Ad.jpgNina Ricci announced that they will introduce a new feminine perfume called Ricci Ricci on August the 24th 2009 in France to be followed by an international roll-out. Like the upcoming Cascade by Chopard to be launched in July 2009, it features a central accord resting on the night bloom Belle-de-Nuit (Mirabilis jalapa L.) which diffuses its scent only from 4 pm until the morn.

There was a Fragonard perfume called Belle de Nuit, but it is not a common floral note in perfumes. All of a sudden and due to the Zeitgeist it seems, you will be able to compare two Belle-de-Nuit compositions within a short span of time (I am precisely on the point of publishing my review of Cascade)...

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Interview de Keiko Mecheri en Version Française {Passion for Perfume - Portraits}


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 Chers lecteurs francophones,

Je vous propose ici une version française de l'interview de la directrice artistique de Les Parfums Keiko Mecheri, Keiko Mecheri, effectuée précédemment en anglais. J'ai pensé que la marque étant peu connue des amoureux des parfums non anglophones, cela valait la peine de mieux la faire connaître à un public élargi.

C'est une première pour moi que de faire l'effort de traduire des pensées exprimées dans la langue de Shakespeare (pour utiliser un cliché éculé, mais il ne me vient pas d'autres images en cet instant), dans la langue de Molière (autre cliché, mais il fait chaud) bien que par le passé il m'ait été donné de traduire des interviews en version originale française, en anglais.

J'espère que cette petite activité de diffusion culturelle vous plaira. S'il y a bien une chose qui puisse me pousser à faire de la traduction, c'est la pensée de mieux faire communiquer les cultures.

Bien cordialement,
Marie-Hélène

PS: cette petite interview comporte un addendum, rajouté également à la version originale, concernant le choix des noms de parfums.




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Interview de Keiko Mecheri



TSS: A quelle date fut fondée la marque de parfums Keiko Mecheri? Quelle était votre votre vision de la marque à ses origines?

Keiko Mecheri: La marque fut créée en 1997 à Beverly Hills en Californie. Ma vision pour celle-ci à l'époque était de créer une maison authentique, indépendante, se trouvant à des milliers de kilomètres de la vieille Europe et se situant aux marges de "l'establishment" du parfum. Je voulais créer des parfums qui soient scrupuleusement qualitatifs, capables de provoquer un sentiment d'enchantement.

Mon intention était également d'initier une nouvelle approche et d'élever le niveau de la parfumerie aux Etats-Unis (ceci dit bien entendu, sans aucune fausse modestie)...

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June 29, 2009

Cheap Perfumes Contain Trace Amounts of Explosives {The 5th Sense in the News}


perfume-baghdad.jpgLife is dangerous in Iraq but who knew that wearing perfume could provoke security issues? Although the following article does not address the problem of the health hazards that certain perfumes and cosmetics containing trace amounts of explosives could potentially cause to their users, it does reveal that fragrances can trigger explosives detectors...

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June 28, 2009

Spring & Summer Notes: Peonies Red, Pink and Yellow {Scented Images of the Day}


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I was eager to plunge my nose in the spumy peonies as soon as they appeared last spring. Peonies always remind me of one day in spring in my childhood when I arrived at the country house of a friend for the Easter holiday.  As soon as I got out of the car I was welcomed by the sunny, undulating spectacle of gusts of wind blowing hard on a large seemingly frenzied bed of peonies which despite their mass were dancing as if in a wild ballet, surging episodically like rustling waves of foamy silk chiffon. The froufrou sound they made against the wind is still in my ears. I ran towards them in order to instinctively hug them and we were all laughing hard trying to prevent them from breaking but also a little out of our minds of happiness to be able to dance with the wind and flowers so soon after we arrived. The flowers seemed to be about our heights...

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Juliette Has A Gun Midnight Oud (2009): Adapted Opulence: Oud for Urban Chypre Tastes {Perfume Review} {New Fragrance}


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Perfumer: Romano Ricci

Perfume notes: saffron, Bulgarian rose, patchouli, musk, amber, sandalwood, oud


Midnight Oud is the latest opus by perfume house Juliette Has A Gun which defines one of the aspects of its general enterprise as "Luxury, in its spicy and singular version." Juliette's gun is nothing else but her seductive perfume of course. Romano Ricci, founder of the label officially signs here his second composition after Citizen Queen, according to the 2009 press release (in 2008, the brand attributed the perfume to Francis Kurkdjian).

It is intriguing a priori to see a very Parisian perfume house jump head along into an arabesque exercise, without any prior warning signals or sense of anticipation. It appears even more meaningful it seems since several brands this year are tackling oud compositions (see upcoming article). Romano Ricci, the founder and now perfumer-in-title of Juliette Has A Gun, succeeding to nose Francis Kurkdjian, said

"Following Citizen Queen, Lady Vengeance, and Miss Charming, I decided to dedicate a limited edition fragrance to the Arabian soul.

Inspired by middle east's rich and sumptuous culture, «Midnight Oud» is an opulent composition. A mesmerizing blend of local ingredients, Saffron, Musk, Amber, and Sandalwood, crowned by the most evocative all, OUD. "...

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