Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian will introduce his perfume line, Maison Francis Kurkdjian, at the Space NK store at 8 Broadwick Street in Soho on Wednesday, 8 September from 4 to 6 pm. The event is free, but you must book a space by calling 020 7734 3734.
The usual: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last perfume that surprised you, what you’re doing to celebrate Labor Day, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
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Floris has launched Floris 280, a new limited edition floriental fragrance for women celebrating the house’s 280th anniversary:
Only 280 bottles have been produced…
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I recently heard an interview with Bonnie Blodgett (shown above right), who wrote a memoir about the experience of losing and rediscovering the sense of smell. I am intrigued, and have placed this book at the top of my reading list.
If you, too, have read or are planning to read Remembering Smell, let’s chat about it. How about an October book club…
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If you’ve been following perfume news over the past month or so, you’ve probably noticed that Gucci Guilty is one of this fall’s major launches, complete with full-page ads and scent strips in fashion magazines, a movie-star “face,” a television commercial with a theme song, a somewhat hyperbolic press release, a tie-in to the MTV Video Music Awards, and the now-requisite Facebook page. It’s being promoted as a fragrance for a “21st Century beauty” who is “young, audacious, discerning…an iconoclast who lives life at full throttle…sexy and slightly dangerous.”
Guilty’s bottle is certainly eye-catching: it looks like an oversized, gilded (gilty?) Gucci purse clasp or belt buckle, with its unmistakable interlocking “G”s creating a window onto the juice inside. Gucci devotees will want to own Guilty for the container alone. The fragrance is classified as a floriental, with notes of mandarin, pink pepper, peach, lilac, geranium, amber, and patchouli.
Guilty seems to be more of a sheer, fruity oriental than a floral oriental…
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Deal at artisanparfumeur.us: get free shipping, no coupon code needed, offer good through 9/15.
Deal at beautyhabit: get a small cosmetic bag from A Touch Of Ivy with any purchase of $85 or more using coupon code MINIME, good through 9/15.
New at dillards: Kate Spade Twirl.
New at senteursdailleurs (Brussels): the Grossmith line.
Victoria’s Secret has launched Bombshell, a new fragrance for women:
Sexy today. Sexy tomorrow. Sexy forever…
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Penhaligon’s has added two more fragrances to their Anthology collection (“breathing new life into fragrances from our archive”), Jubilee Bouquet and Zizonia…
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