Rich Hippie Organic Perfume has launched a new fragrance called Brown Sugar. This romantic, oriental-floral perfume contains:
Top notes: Italian Bergamot, Tunisian Orange Blossom
Middle notes: Moroccan Verveine, French Lavender
Base notes: French Angelica, Croatian Vanilla Bean
Brown Sugar is available in 0.5 oz perfume for $325. For more information, please visit: www.rich-hippie.com.
To read my recent review of Rich Hippie, please click here.
Luxury designer Hermès has announced the creation of Kelly Calèche, a new fragrance for women.
Created by in-house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, the fragrance contains notes of iris, mimosa, tuberose and climbing rose.
Hermès is well-known for its iconic Kelly Bag, favored by movie star legend/Princess Grace Kelly. Perfumer Jean-Claude was inspired by the rich history of Hermès to make a floral leather.
“One of the first things I wanted to do when I entered Hermès was work with leather,” said Ellena. He also kept in mind a passage from French author Jean Giono’s ‘Jean le Bleu,’ in which the narrator speaks of his departed father, a cobbler, as ‘making soles in angel leather.’”
When I read that last phrase, I stifled a little gasp. Angel leather?!?
This fragrance will launch in the new Hermès boutique opening on Wall Street in NYC on June 21. It will have a limited launch in August, followed by a worldwide launch at the end of that month.
Cost: $75 for 50ml eau de toilette spray and $110 for 100ml edt spray.
Designer Carolina Herrera has announced the launch of two new, limited-edition fragrances, one for women and one for men. Christened 212 Splash, hers has notes of litchi, grapefruit, sandalwood and musk. His contains notes of fresh mint, ginger, musk and frankincense.
Both fragrances come in soda-shaped packages.
Which might go nicely with the perfumed ice-cubes from designer Kenzo.
These perfumed ice-cubes for the body melt when they contact warm skin.
The ice-cube becomes fluid and releases its perfume. The sensual power of a perfume built on the fragrance of rice steam. Creamy and milky notes that envelop the body. Icebergs of pleasure made of plant water, extracted without using chemicals from the heart of the rice plant, rich in essential oils, trace elements and mineral salts (via kenzoki.com).
The perfumed cubes are packaged in boxes of 12 and cost €23 ($31 US).
Would you like a twist of lime with that?
As a follow-up to my prior post about the new Courvoisier L’edition Imperiale men’s fragrance, I thought you would like to know what the bottle looks like. It reminds me of an upscale hip-flask.
It is launching in the UK this month. Cost: £80 ($160 US) for 75ml edp, £95 ($190 US) for 125ml edp.
Giorgio Armani has two new fragrances for summer: Summer Mania for Women and Summer Mania for Men. The women’s scent has notes of pear, jasmine, sandalwood milk, musk and white amber. The men’s fragrance is a citrus cocktail with notes of saffron blossom, musks and a breath of sea spray.
The frosted-glass bottles come in shades of turquoise for her and midnight-blue for him. Eau de toilettes 2.6 fl. oz., limited edition.
Meanwhile, Cartier is launching Delices Eau Fruitée. This fruity blend has notes of Sicilian bergamot, green mandarin orange, rhubarb leaves, jasmine, sun-drenched yellow lily notes, griotte, sandalwood, amber,and musk.
Eau de toilette 1.7 fl. oz., €59 ($80 US) and 3.4 fl. oz., €84 ($114 US).
To celebrate love and springtime in Paris, Nina Ricci has created a limited-edition new version of Love in Paris which is called Love in Paris Fleur de Pivoine (Love in Paris Peony Flower). This reinterpretation pays homage to the peony, “the flower of spring par excellance, charming and merry” (via beaute-addict.com). Other notes include néroli, blackcurrant, pink bays, rose, violet, raspberry, heliotrope, musk, patchouli and georgywood.
Available from May 2007. Perfume spray, 50ml, price: 52€ ($70.65 US dollars at today’s exchange rate)
Aerin Lauder, granddaughter of make-up maven Estée Lauder, has announced the creation of a new perfume. Christened Private Collection Tuberose Gardenia, the fragrance will launch in August:
Its top notes are of neroli, lilac and rosewood; the heart is of tuberose, gardenia, orange flower, jasmine and white lily, and the drydown is of carnation and vanilla bourbon.
The high-end, limited edition fragrance will be available at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus, Saks, and Holt Renfrew. Cost: $300 1oz perfume; $120 2.5oz eau de parfum; $65 1oz eau de parfum; $175 solid perfume; $75 6.7oz body cream (via wwd.com).
To read more about the inimitable Estée Lauder (shown below), please see this informative telograph.co.uk article.
Today the House of Guerlain is launching an exclusive, limited-edition perfume, Muguet (lily-of-the-valley). It is being released just a few days before May Day, when the French traditionally gift each other with lily-of-the-valley. Muguet will be available from the House of Guerlain in Paris, as well as other Guerlain boutiques worldwide (Bergdorf Goodman; Neiman Marcus, San Francisco; and Toronto).
Haute perfume Yü, which translates as rain in Chinese, is the creation of perfumer Cecile Krakower, (Mane, USA). She was given freedom to create without time or cost constraints. The resulting limited-edition fragrance costs $5,000 for 1.7oz eau de parfum. Yes, you read that correctly. This ultra-luxurious fragrance costs $5,000 and is limited to 500 numbered bottles.
Yü has been available at aedes for a few months. It is also also available at Bergdorf Goodman by invitation only and through personal shopper programs. It will launch in Hong Kong’s Lane Crawford in June and debut in Nordstrom in the fall.
Part of what makes this perfume so costly is the innovative extraction technique used in obtaining some of the plant essences. This proprietary technique is called Jungle Essence technology:
Described as an evolution of head-space technology and standard extraction methods, Jungle Essence is a portable process that captures the olfactive integrity of a plant in its natural habitat (via cosmeticworld.com).
The floral fragrance contains notes of genet (broom), champaca, Sicilian bergamot, Floridian tangerine, orange flower absolute, Asian mandarin tree leaf Jungle Essence, African freesia Jungle Essence, Madagascan ylang ylang, Brazilian rosewood leaf, vetyver, Mysore sandalwood and vanilla absolute.
Each raindrop-shaped flacon is numbered and is presented in a lovely, leather-lined birch box.
I am intrigued by this Jungle Essence technology (and whoever came up with that name is a genius!) It seems that it has great potential for preserving the integrity of rare and endangered plant sources. Hopefully the cost of using this technology will come down over time, thereby lowering the cost of perfumes which use it. Very interesting…
Niche perfume house Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle has announced a new fragrance which will launch in May. Designed by perfumer Pierre Bourdon, it will be called French Lover:
Frédéric Malle’s original idea was to create a fuller-bodied version of the scent Angéliques sous la Pluie. But the creator and the perfumer soon went beyond that concept to come up with a sophisticated men’s scent, ‘super-sensual, but not trashy.’ The ingredients include dazzling green notes of pimento and galbanum, iris, cedar, trimofix, angelica, frankincense and vetiver. Mosses, musks, ambroxan and karanal bestow ‘a kind of plant-based animal quality that immediately evoked the smell of a man’ [for the creators] (via osMoz.com).
It is interesting to note that the idea for this new fragrance began with the delicate and ethereal Angéliques sous la Pluie.
Created by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena, Angéliques sous la Pluie:
plays out like a chamber music arrangement. One detects the sparkling, spicy, tonic notes of this slightly musky flower, softened by a hint of juniper berries and coriander, and drying down to musk and cedar (via editionsdeparfums.com).
This is one of my favorite fragrances to wear when I want a scent that is light and pleasant and sure not to be cloying or overpowering. I will be interested to see how it compares to French Lover, which promises to be much bolder in character. Perhaps it will be the yin to French Lover’s yang.
To read more about this collection, please see my previous Frédéric Malle post.
Cost: 1.7 fl. oz.: €90; 3.4 fl. oz.: €135.
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