Wear it and live the dream of Formosa

Formosa, the original name of Taiwan, is a new fragrance that extols the beauty, and charm of the island. Its indigenous flowers, fruits, and spices have been blended into a unique fragrance created by one of the World’s top master perfumers. Wear it and live the dream of Formosa.

Taiwan-born Shining Sung, whose family owns Taiwan’s Chi Mei Museum, launches her first fragrance, Formosa, exclusive at Bergdorf’s (New York City).

Created by Honorine Blanc, Formosa, named after the original name of Taiwan, is a new fragrance that extols the beauty, and charm of the island. The floriental composition is formulated with ingredients Indigenous to Taiwan – plum blossom, white peony, black currant, sweet mandarin, labdanum, patchouli – and conceived as a love letter to Sung’s home country.

The unique Art Deco style flacon was designed by Marc Rosen, who is known for his works for Elizabeth Arden (Red Door), Chloé, Fendi, Karl Lagerfeld (KL), Halston, Burberry, Lucien Lelong (Lelong) and Nina Ricci’s L’Air du Temps for their 50th anniversary by Lalique. Mr. Rosen considers the Formosa flacon one of his favorite designs of his career. Mr. Rosen considers the Formosa flacon one of his favorite designs of his career. The flacon design features a carved green faux jade ball closure, atop a bottle that is a sleek crystal clear slice of heavy glass. It com­bines the charm and authenticity of Formosa with the modern dynamic of Taiwan.

Formosa is available for pre-order (2.5 oz./ 75 ml for $295) exclusive at Bergdorf Goodman’s in the U.S. For more information, come into the beautiful world of Formosa.

Cat without claws Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Baby Cat Collector

In 1977 Yves Saint Laurent introduces Opium: a groundbreaking perfume. A revolution in a flacon. A new idea of ​​femininity: sultry, provocative, addictive. In 2014, the iconic Opium’s legacy and boldness continue to amaze: the French fashion house unveils Black Opium, reinventing addiction in a new, contemporary light, reshaping for the modern woman.

A modern, young and vibrant interpretation of addiction. Black Opium, a fragrance like a shot of adrenalin, the necessary energy for a life more and more intense.

To celebrate the festive season, Yves Saint Laurent offers a wild twist on a holiday classic: The iconic Black Opium flacon is now adorned with the wildest YSL Print: The feline sparkling Babycat. Just as bold and glamorous as its ambassador: Zoë Kravitz.

The new collector flacon houses the French Maison’s best-selling Black Opium original Eau de Parfum with its signature blend of black coffee, white flowers and creamy vanilla for a warming and sensual scent, created by Marie Salamagne, Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp and Honorine Blanc. The one gift to put on your wish list or to spoil someone special this season.

Top: pear accord, mandarin essence
Heart: vanilla, orange blossom, white flowers
Base: black coffee accord, cedarwood essence, white musk, patchouli

 A captivating floral gourmand scent, twisted with an overdose of black coffee, for a shot of adrenaline. Energy, sensuality, coupled with that unique YSL edge. The signature black coffee accord is paired with creamy vanilla, enriched by the softness of white flowers and orange blossom, against a base of patchouli and comforting white musk, for a women’s fragrance that bewitches with its trail.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Baby Cat belongs to this collection and comes in a black lacquered bottle with a bright red sequined animal print (with the pink color of the juice seen through the center of the glittering flacon). This collector’s edition reportedly represents a confident and daring woman who embodies the new spirit of the French Maison.

How to use:

For light intensity: spray in a cloud around your head and shoulders, let the fragrance fall gently around you.
For medium intensity: spray in a y-shape across your body, beginning at one shoulder and finishing at the other. If you are wearing jewellery it is a great alternative to spraying your neck.
For added intensity: apply perfume directly to your pulse points and / or hot spots (wrist, inner elbow and lower neck). Here the heat of your body will allow the fragrance to reveal its full trail. Include shoulders and back to intensify your perfume trail.

For the winter holiday season, Yves Saint Laurent prepared other collector’s editions of its best-selling perfumes in flacons decorated with animal prints (like Libre, Mon Paris…..) along with various gift sets and a make-up collection called ‘Dress Me Wild’.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Baby Cat is available as 50ml Eau de Parfum, at selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Yves Saint Laurent.

 

Ohh yes, its fabulous!

French Maison Cacharel has launched a third edition of its Yes I Am fragrance collection. The very attractive flacon in the shape of a lipstick comes in a seductive color purple, while the composition is very addictive, fruity, and creamy.

Following the oriental-floral and raspberry milky Yes I Am edition (2018), and the floral-fruity and milky Yes I Am Pink First (2019), the newest composition of the French fashion house again favors milky aromas, combining a fresh hazelnut milk with the powdery and vanillic notes of heliotrope, known for its cocooning effect, crowned with irresistible blackberry aromas. Yes I Am Fabulous was created by perfumer Honorine Blanc, who aimed to reflect the audacity of an irreverent electric violet with this newest composition.

 

The flacon has kept the shape of its predecessors, this time in an amethyst like purple color. Cacharel Yes I Am Fabulous comes as a 30, 50 and 75ml Eau de Parfum. It will be available at Cacharel boutiques and selected stores world wide. Are you fabulous?

Come into the beautiful world of Cacharel.

 

 

 

Ralph Lauren Beyond Romance, a daring new fragrance that transforms the everyday into the extraordinary. .

American fashion designer Ralph Lauren strongly believes in Romance. The first Romance creation was launched in 1998, followed by a line of diverse yet elegant Romance flankers reflecting different romance fantasies. They are all sparkling celebrations of romance; intimate, passionate, sensual…

The newest creation Beyond Romance attracts us with the floral theme  present in all Romance creations, this time sweetened with tasty raspberries and a dark, seductive, and comfortable layer of vanilla.

Created by Honorine Blanc, Beyond Romance is a new adventure in Romance: mysterious, daring and wild. She turns the ordinary into extraordinary! The fragrance seduces with red raspberry aromas, sunny citrus juices, and an elegant floral bouquet layered on a bed of black vanilla, cashmeran, and white musk.

When I design, I create a world. I imagine every detail – the place, the man, the woman. What they are wearing, right down to the fragrance. A fragrance can make you feel alive and that what’s Beyond Romance is about, giving the sensation to live life fully. I wanted to go beyond the traditional floral archetype to give every woman a strong and individual aura.

Honorine Blanc

In the advertising campaign of the newest fragrance we find Taylor Hill and real-life boyfriend Michael Stephen Shank. Taylor Hill’s new Ralph Lauren fragrance campaign was ‘extra fun’ to shoot because she got to work with her boyfriend again.

The 23-year-old, who has a long-standing relationship with the designer, was tapped to front the imagery for the Romance fragrance alongside her longtime boyfriend Michael Stephen Shank in January, and the duo is now fronting the campaign for the brand’s new perfume, Beyond Romance.

It was comfortable. It was extra fun because it wasn’t just some random person I hadn’t met before.

Taylor Hill

The video shows Taylor and Michael partying in New York, where they live, embracing on a rooftop near the Empire State Building and setting off fireworks, and the Victoria’s Secret Angel told Us Weekly she felt at ease on the set because she didn’t have to fake chemistry with a stranger.

Taylor shared that the scent gives her “flashbacks of being a teenager and falling in love for the first time” and evokes the day of the photoshoot.

When I smell Romance, I think of the shoot day. It was a day where I got to be a tourist in my city and go to the top of the building with the Empire State Building right in front of me.

Taylor Hill

During the interview, the Ralph Lauren fragrance ambassador also revealed that fragrances would make her sneeze as a child, her first favourite scent growing up was the laundry detergent Tide, and she applies her perfume to her neck, the back of her ears and her wrist before leaving the house each day.

Ralph Lauren Beyond Romance preserves the same bottle shape as the original perfume, Beyond Romance is available as 30, 50 and 100ml Eau de Parfum. Come into the beautiul world of Ralph Lauren.

 

 

 

 

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Intense

 

French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent will launch a new edition of their iconic perfume Black Opium, Black Opium Intense in a black/blue sparkling flacon. The new perfume, as well as the packing, says it all – that it is a new more mature, more intense, and more powerful perfume for women.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Intense wasn’t created by one or two perfumers, but by four! Created by Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp, Honorine Blanc and Marie Salamagne, Black Opium Intense is describes a modern/powerful woman, truly confident and stylish. Black Opium Intense has a new modified composition made of coffee blended with absinthe and seasoned with floral accords.

Top notes: Boysenverry, Blue absinthe
Heart notes: Orange blossom, Sambac jasmine Black coffee
Base notes: Sandalwood, Vanilla,

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Intense a magical, bold, seductive and independent woman, appropriately portrayed by gorgeous actress Zoë Kravitz (Lenny Kravitz’s daughter) , the new face of the advertising campaign for the line. She follows her intuition and her desires, and nothing can stop her. She is attracted by the energy and the possibilities that the night brings. Another famous face in the new campaign is Presley Gerber, the son of supermodel Cindy Crawford.

The dark blue flacon is illuminated from the inside with the blue liquid of the perfume. Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Intense is available as 30, 50 and 90ml Eau de Parfum Intense.

 

 

 

Lancôme La Nuit Tresor Diamant Blanc

 

Lancôme La Nuit Tresor is a very feminine and powerful perfume for women and one of the most successful in the Lancôme perfume collection. La Nuit Tresor by Lancôme is a truly elegant, seductive and sophisticated perfume for true connoisseurs. This winter, Lancôme introduces a new edition La Nuit Tresor Diamant Blanc perfume coming with a pleasant aroma of oriental/floral accords. The new edition is also created by famous perfumers Christophe Raynaud, Amandine Marie and Honorine Blanc as a romantic and charming at heart perfume.

Top notes: Raspberry, Violet Leaf, White musk
Heart notes: Freesia, Jasmine, Damask Rose, White musk
Base notes: Sandalwood, Vanilla, Patchouli, White musk

Lancôme La Nuit Tresor Diamant Blanc is created around the main ingredient white musk that adds the irresistible sensuality. It also blends floral accords of violet leaf, Damask rose, freesia, jasmine petals seasoned with woody notes of sandalwood, patchouli, almond, and sweet vanilla.

La Nuit Tresor Diamant Blanc comes in the signature diamond shaped flacon, for this edition made of blurred glass that is iridescentand excudeswhite white-violet shades. Lancôme La Nuit Tresor Diamant Blanc is available as 30, 50 and 75ml Eau de Parfum.

 

 

 

 

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Gold Attraction

This year, and special for the winter holidays, French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent launches a new pair of limited edition perfumes. The fragrances Black Opium and Mon Paris are presented preserve the original shapes, yet decorated with golden sparkling logos to add a touch of glamour and holiday mood.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Gold Attraction Edition

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Gold Attraction Edition is described to be ‘an addictive gourmand of black coffee, white florals, and vanilla’. The new edition is all about an energetic morning coffee next to aromatic flowers.

A highly addictive feminine fragrance from Yves Saint Laurent. Fascinating and seductively intoxicating, the opening notes of adrenaline-rich coffee and the sweet sensuality of vanilla recline into the softness of white flowers for a modern, young, and vibrant interpretation of addiction.

Created by famous perfumers Nathalie Lorson, Olivier Cresp and Honorine Blanc, Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Gold Attraction Edition opens to impress with a glamour spirit of fresh tangerine, pear notes along with floral accords of orange blossom and jasmine. The base seduces with a nice entrance of coffee aroma mixed with cedar, patchouli, and sweet vanilla.  

 

An exciting twist on the original, the Black Opium Gold Attraction Edition features a matte black bottle with the YSL logo made of golden shimmer.

Yves Saint Laurent Black Opium Gold Attraction Edition is available as 50ml Eau de Parfum. 

Yves Saint Laurent Mon Paris Gold Attraction Edition

Created by perfumers Olivier Cresp, Harry Fremont and Dora Baghrice, exotic white blossom of Datura, pink pepper and pear, creamy white musk and patchouli aim to conjure a passionate and unforgettable journey to ‘the city of light’ Paris, and the love story that happend there.

The sparkling, fruity white chypre scent from Yves Saint Laurent, inspired by Paris, the city of Romance now comes in the Mon Paris Gold Attraction Edition flacon adorned with a golden, glittering YSL logo broche and a black Lavallière that is ‘inspired by the modern allure and the edgy couture style of the Yves Saint Laurent woman.

Yves Saint Laurent Mon Paris Gold Attraction Edition is available as 50ml Eau de Parfum. 

 

 

 

 

 

Calvin Klein Women

It’s been 13 years since Calvin Klein – who created still-recognizable zeitgeist scents like Obsession and Eternity – has released a new fragrance. But now under the helm of chief creative officer Raf Simons, the fashion house is returning to creating iconic scents with the July launch of a new scent, simply called Women. Simons joined Calvin Klein in August 2016 and famously thanked ‘women’ when accepting his Womenswear Designer of the Year honor – his second in two years – at June’s CFDA Awards. Now, he’s making a new mark on the label, collaborating on his first fragrance.

Immediately when I arrived, I looked closely at the various fragrances in the portfolio because it was important for me to continue the stories they captured, which were all iconic and meaningful moments. It became clear very early on that we should create a new fragrance and a new chapter to the story.

Raf Simons in Business of Fashion.

To do so, Simons asked perfumers Honorine Blanc and Annick Menardo. They combined Eucalyptus acorns, Alaskan cedarwood and orange blossom to create a ‘woody floral with notes of orange flower and lemon pepper’. It’s an easy, soft, and citrusy/fresh spicy perfume. Calvin Klein Women is a sophisticated scent that has a modern and youthful aroma. This new perfume is created for women who love to look real, to be happy, to have pure emotions and sensations. 

To promote the new scent, Simons recruited very talented women; Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o and three-time Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan are the faces of Calvin Klein Women’s campaign, photographed by visual artist Anne Collier, who also co-created the packaging with perfume bottle designer Suzanne Dalton (Collier’s photograph of a woman’s eye is superimposed on the disc-like cap).

Calvin Klein Women is available as 30, 50 and 100ml Eau de Parfum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jimmy Choo Fever

 

Jimmy Choo launches a new perfume for women simply named Fever. What can be more thrilling and intriguing than to owe Fever Perfume by Jimmy Choo. It is a new delicate fragrance and a new spring obsession from Jimmy Choo to its lovers. The new perfume appears to be more different than the original fragrance, with a more soft and fresher aroma to make it a lingering aroma. Advertised by gorgeous model Hannah Ferguson, this perfume ideally portrays the modern, stylish, and sexy woman of today.

Top notes: Grapefruit, Litchi, Plum
Heart notes: Heliotrope
Base notes: Sandalwood, Benzoin, Tonka bean

Jimmy Choo Fever is composed by famous perfumers Nathalie Lorson and Honorine Blanc as a warm spicy fruity/floral perfume. This perfume balances fruits with flowers to make it a  tempting and a hot spring/summer perfume, calming with soft sweet notes making this perfume look and smell glamourous.

 

 

This new sex-appealing perfume is a new weapon of seduction in the hands of any woman. Create an expensive look with the new Fever perfume, and feel luxurious just as you feel in any Jimmy Choo shoes. 

Jimmy Choo Fever is available as 40, 60 and 100ml Eau de Parfum. 

 

 

 

 

Lancôme La Nuit Trésor A La Folie

Lancôme Trésor is a strong and intense perfume that characterizes strong women. It is an evening perfume due to its powerful and heady ingredients. I have the original perfume and have to admit that I use it only on occasions as it lasts long on my skin, truly provocative, yet too pungent. This year, the French Maison indulges its devotees with an elixir of love, La Nuit Trésor A La Folie. The new edition follows the previous editions as Trésor, Trésor Eau de Toilette, and La Nuit Trésor.

Created by Christophe Raynaud, Amandine Clerc-Marie and Honorine Blanc, Lancôme La Nuit Trésor A La Folie is a romantic and lovely perfume perfectly portraying that moment of love at its climax. This thrilling new perfume makes you forget everything and lose control.

Top notes: Pink pepper, Bergamot, Pear, Red currant
Heart notes: Damask rose, Jasmine, Peony, Violet
Base notes: Bourbon vanilla, Benzoin, Tonka, Patchouli, Woody notes, Ambroxan, Nutmeg

It opens with fresh bergamot and pear notes nicely mixed with spices of red currant, pink pepper. Overwhelming and extremely sensual, the great thrill of love is perfectly embodied by the fiery rose. This rose joins the Trésor roseraie, very sensual and addictive. The perfume opens on an opulent Vanilla elixir and a woody patchouli drydown.

 

 

The bottle of La Nuit Trésor à la Folie looks like it is mistaken for that of his predecessor. Only its color has changed slightly. She becomes more feminine and glamorous than before, enriched with fuchsia reflections. La Nuit Trésor à La Folie is like an exceptional jewel from contemporary fine jewelery. Cut to a point, it displays an admirable symmetry, and is similar to a rough cut diamond of 75 facets. This ornamental jewel is also decorated with a black satin bow at the collar. Inspired by the original Trésor bottle from 1952, it has a remarkable French elegance with an incredible sense of detail.

Lancôme La Nuit Trésor A La Folie is available as 30 and 75ml Eau de Parfum.