A Perfume Organic, a fairly recent niche brand offering certified organic fragrances, is celebrating Fashion’s Night Out this coming Friday 10th September in New York City at 2 Great Jones Street, Broadway & Lafayette from 6PM-10PM. A contest with prizes is organized, some prosecco drinking and complimentary fragrance samples for all. Participate in a scavenger hunt-themed styling contest in
“Racy”: really? I thought it was rather predictable. What say you?Intimately Yours duo of fragrances (for him and for her) by David & Victoria Beckham is set to be the 5th launch of the super-duet, promising it’s the steamiest of their celebrity scents offerings so far. They would, wouldn’t they?Source Marie Claire UK
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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Ed Hardy will launch Born Wild, a new duo of fragrances for men and women, in November.
Ed Hardy Born Wild For Women (shown above) ~ “Let this daring fragrance take you on an adventure…
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Playboy Fragrances will launch three new perfumes for women — Play It Lovely, Play It Sexy and Play It Spicy — in September.
Play It Lovely is a fresh fruity floral with citrus, blackberry…
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Tommy Hilfiger will launch Loud, a new duo of fragrances “built around a music proposition and aimed at Gen-Y users”; Loud For Her and Loud For Him also tie into Hilfiger’s Get Loud denim campaign…
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Star Wars Slave Leia & Eau Lando ~ new fragrances
Two limited edition fragrances (there might be more) introduced at Star Wars Celebration V earlier this month:
Slave Leia (shown) ~ “Chains cannot restrain your smoldering sensuality even when the most despicable scum in the galaxy surround you…”
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Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, mid-August 2010
Same old open thread: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last vacation you took (and what fragrances you brought with you), whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: image is Shells by walknboston at flickr; some rights reserved.
No room at the top
Bloom says that for the past 10 years, seven out of the 10 top-selling luxury fragrances in the U.S. have remained the same. For example, Donna Karan’s flowery Cashmere Mist, which first launched in 1994, and the truly timeless Chanel No. 5, which has adorned women since 1921.
— That’s Rochelle Bloom of the Fragrance Foundation, quoted in Smelling Out Sales In Perfume at Forbes.
Lazy weekend poll ~ guilty pleasures
Today’s poll is about guilty pleasures: fragrances you love even though you (or others?) think maybe you shouldn’t. Another way of stating it might be “the perfumes you don’t usually admit you own”.
So do ‘fess up! Your host today is Aparatchick…
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