Italian niche line Bruno Acampora will launch Azzurro di Capri, a new fragrance. The Summer sky, a song from Adriano Celentano and one of the most passionate fashion collections designed by Walter Albini. Azzurro di Capri is the newest Essence from Acampora, a tribute to Summer and to the Island of Capri. Pervasive yet delicate … Read More →
Burberry just launched Mr. Burberry, a fragrance described as the ‘lover’ of 2014’s My Burberry. The first thing that came to my mind after smelling Mr. Burberry was: what a dull couple! Burberry, fashion or fragrance, is not a favorite brand of mine. I’m at saturation point with the scarves and trench coats, but those two … Read More →
Making perfect scents! For its new genderbending fragrance, Boy Chanel, the Parisian house’s perfumer Olivier Polge drew inspiration from Coco Chanel’s lover and benefactor, Arthur Capel, whose nickname was Boy. “My way of working on this fragrance was really not to try to make a unisex fragrance but really more to dive into men’s fragrance … Read More →
A new inclusion to Guerlain’s Aqua Allegoria fragrance series has made its debut in February 2016. With the title Pera Granita that means pear sorbet its purpose is to catch the clear and bright experience of a summer satisfaction. Encased in the acquainted bottle of the Aqua Allegoria collection the fruity floral fragrance has a … Read More →
Light, fresh and slightly masculine, the Italian fruit invigorates these four new perfumes. Photo Diana Vreeland Vivaciously Bold In February 1969, as the editor in chief of Vogue, Diana Vreeland wrote in a four-page memo on perfume: “I think men’s scents are wonderful for women … they have such character and are so marvelously clean.” … Read More →
When you first smell Folie à Plusieurs’ line of Le Cinéma Olfactif perfumes, you might detect sandalwood, nutmeg or musk. But the packaging lists the ingredients as “when eyes first meet,” “cold sweat breaks at night,” “this could be love,” “porcelain figurines forgotten by prayer” and “glitter powder” — the emotional essences of movies like … Read More →
The perfume historian Barbara Herman insists she is ‘‘not a nostalgist.’’ Still, she found herself lamenting the fact that the more animalic, “erotic” fragrances she prefers (she collects vintage perfumes, like Lanvin’s My Sin and Robert Piguet’s Baghari, from as far back as the turn of the 20th century) went out of favor in the … Read More →