Givenchy Gentleman Eau de Toilette Intense

Born in Beauvais, in northern France, in 1927, Hubert James Taffin de Givenchy left his hometown for Paris at the age of 17 to take an apprenticeship at a couture house. He began at Jacques Fath while also studying drawing at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, the French National School of Fine Art. He moved to Robert Piguet in 1946 and, briefly, Lucien Lelong in 1947 before joining Elsa Schiaparelli later the same year. Quickly, he became the Artistic Director of the Schiaparelli boutique the Place Vendôme.

In 1952, Givenchy founded his namesake house on Rue Alfred de Vigny in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. For his first collection, he presented “Separates”, looks composed of elegant blouses and breezy skirts that blended architectural lines with the simplicity of the materials. This original point of view marked the resounding debut of a four-decade career at his own house. In the summer of 1953, the couturier met Audrey Hepburn, who borrowed several looks for her film Sabrina. It was the beginning of a long collaboration and profound friendship between the actress and the designer. The same year, in New York, Givenchy met his idol, Cristobal Balenciaga, with whom he became close friends.

In 1957, Audrey Hepburn lent her face to Hubert de Givenchy’s first perfume, L’Interdit, which was dedicated to her. In 1969, the designer created his men’s ready-to-wear line ‘Givenchy Gentleman’. Five yoars later, in 1974 the french designer launched its first men’s fragrance: Givenchy Gentleman.

The now iconic men’s fragrance Givenchy Gentleman received a new, modernized reinterpretation with Gentleman Givenchy in 2017, showing what this fragrance would have looked like if it had been made today.

The now iconic Gentleman Givenchy collection is now expanded with a new Eau de Toilette Intense edition, which redefines seduction with a natural elegance and crystallizes the very essence of a gentleman.

Gentleman Givenchy Intense is an aromatic-floral and woody fragrance that brings a touch of freshness and powder to the collection, and represents a balance between tenderness, sensuality and intensity.

Top: bergamot, basil, cardamom
Heart: blue iris, cypress
Base: cedar, coumarin

The composition is a contrast of delicate floral notes and powerful woods. Created by perfumers Olivier Cresp and Nathalie Lorson, Gentleman Intense is a green, aromatic and spicy notes lead to a heart of gentle blue iris, with woody and warm, resinous tones.

Gentleman Givenchy Intense is available as 60 and 100 ml Eau de Toilette Intense at selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Givenchy.

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.

 

Reborn: Dolce & Gabbana L’Imperatrice

Italian fashion house Dolce & Gabbana will launch the new limited edition L’Imperatrice, a variant of the popular perfume originally introduced in 2009 as D&G L’Imperatrice 3 as part of the Antology Collection, which had a total of 9 fragrances named after tarot cards. Currently, this is the only remaining fragrance of this collection, and in the meantime it has lost the ‘D&G’ and ‘3’ labels from its name and is available as simply Dolce & Gabbana L’Imperatrice.

Top: strawberry, watermelon
Heart: Damascus rose, pink peony, magnolia, pink cyclamen
Base: sandelwood, musk, smoky woody notes

L’Imperatrice Limited Edition, like the original, is composed by perfumer Nathalie Lorson. Dolce & Gabbana L’Impératrice stands the test of time as the quintessential fruity floral scent. Juicy exotic fruits and bright pink flowers pave the way for a musky, aphrodisiac base. Flamboyant and energetic: for l’Impératrice, life is like a film in which she plays the leading role. When she enters somewhere, she knows how to focus all the attention on herself. This vivacious, super-attractive woman exudes charisma and strong character.

The thick glass flacon retains the refined, rectangular silhouette with the minimalist black cap, but takes on a darker and stronger pink shade than before. It is packaged in a simple pink box, instead of the white one.

Dolce & Gabbana L’Imperatrice Limited Edition will be available as a 50 and 100ml Eau de Toilette at selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Dolce & Gabbana.

Issey Miyake Fusion d’Issey

Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake is known for his innovations with fabric and his use of technology to produce interesting and practical garments.

An invitation to be #movedbynature. Nature is the best perfumer, all you have to do is draw inspiration from it.

Issey Miyake

Issey Miyake, a visionary who always seeks the essential and the innovative, loves to create the unexpected. Drawing inspiration from art, architecture, and personal experiences, he marries tradition and the avant-garde, sobriety and colour, nature and sophistication, craftsmanship and technology. Issey Miyake has a genuine spirit of creativity.

A new chapter in the Issey Miyake men’s fragrance collection is opened with Fusion d’Issey, a fragrance dedicated to Mother Nature; one that invites to discover the power and diversity of untouched nature.

Powerful, vigorous, and fiery, nature reveals itself (again) with a vengeance. Molten lava pours expressively from a volcano. Fusion d’Issey transforms this eruption of energy into a bold, nuanced composition, giving rise to a creative, endemic nature. Depth, tension, and power for a distinctive fragrance.

Created by master perfumer Nathalie Lorson, Fusion d’Issey is described as a mineral-fougère perfume and as a contrast of cold and warm notes.

For the cool aspect, the sparkling brightness of lemon is paired with the milky sweetness of coconut water, a long-lasting solar scent. Plunging into the heart of the volcano to encounter the mineral and uncover the roundness of ambrox

In an ethereal whisper, essence of fresh rosemary, geranium, and cardamom dissipate, filling the surroundings with their trailing scent. Underlying the notion of fusion is the choice of warm, volcanic wood featuring patchouli.

A new masculinity, heat and cold to express the idea of the quintessence of molten rock. Overflowing with energy and vitality, Fusion d’Issey, a fragrance for daring adventures.

Vertical and elegant, the flacon soars. Deep blue polished glass lies between colbalt and blue-black tinted with green. Light glows at its center, embedded but vibrant. The shiny black cap reminiscent of obsidian, carefully faceted like a jewel. The box echoes the same blue and black color scheme. This is accented by the orange (lava color), boldly graphic Fusion d’Issey name.

Issey Miyake Fusion d’Issey is available as a 50, 100 and 150 ml Eau de Toilette at selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Issey Miyake.

Zadig & Voltaire This is Love!

Fashion house Zadig & Voltaire launched This is Love! A story of love at first sight, a couple of lovers who adore one another and find themselves in ‘a Paris’ that they know by heart. They are artists of the present.

This is Love! An electric love, the manifesto of an intense, free and sensual passion. A story of love fever that awakens the senses…an incandescent, electric, and indelible carnal love.

A Love story that sounds like a challenge. A touch, then another and a kiss in between doors. Freedom is shared heat and skin is a blank canvas on which they draw with the tip of their fingers, a lightning bolt to the heart. The fragrance of burning love, indelible and undisciplined.

Zadig & Voltaire This is Love! For Her

The fragrance for Her is floral and gourmand, for those who always abandon themselves to love at first sight, imagined by Sidonie Lancesseur. A thrill of ginger slides on the skin, creating a tender fever with notes of violet and vanilla. The warm and voluptuous sandalwood embraces the body.

A fragrance that seduces both those who wear it and those who breathe it in. Zadig & Voltaire This is Love! For Her is available as a 30, 50, and 100 ml Eau de Toilette.

 

Zadig & Voltaire This is Love! For Him

The fragrance for Him has a woody aromatic perfume, created by Nathalie Lorson. A tightrope that vibrates between the warmth of a kiss and the chill of loving breath. First, a zest of bergamot that melts on the skin. The orange blossom exalts his sensuality and lets his heart be locked into a cloud of sandalwood.

A sensual and addictive fragrance, hotly masculine. Zadig & Voltaire This is Love! For Him is available as a 30, 50, and 100 ml Eau de Toilette.

The two flacons, born of the pressure of two bodies, create a sensual wave from deep blue to vinyl pink, reunited in each other’s arms to form a spectrum of heat and passion. Its design, inspired by contemporary art, a nod to Thierry Gillier, is both sleek and raw, with flashy and metallic colors that tattoo their love.

Zadig & Voltare This is Love! for Her, and This is Love! for Him! are available at Zadig & Voltaire boutiques and selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Zadig & Voltaire.

 

 

 

 

 

This is Her! This is Him! No Rules

 

Fashion house Zadig & Voltaire introduces This is her! This is him! No Rules an energetic duo that is even more rock and even more desirable, a true chic revolution as well as a declaration of independence from the perfumers who composed the original scents. These two new fragrances shape a new story, two uprecedented trails for a fashion forward eternal couple.

Reinvent chic basics, break away from the rules – even the imperatives of modernity: that was the challenge 5th year design students at Penninghen art school in Paris were set by Cecilia Bönström, the label’s creative director. This performance celebrates 20 years of visionary fashion and love of art.

Forever young, eternally rock. The six-month creative workshop involved ongoing exchanges between the school and the studio. Military jackets, cashmere, biker leathers, Tunisian necklines… a manifesto of contemporary design, this collaboration took the label’s emblematic trademarks, adding some original twists and slogan tags. The team’s unique, irreverent spirit is evident across the board, from fashion to fragrances.

The artiest fragrance duo in French fashion This is Her! & This is Him! throw two new grenades in the name of freedom-fighting. The flacons are contemporary, monoliths of fractured glass, two frontline fashion bombs hacked out of rock. Their pink and khaki camouflage prints exert a mutual attraction, yearning to intertwine. Light shines through the transparency of the glass, filtered through a whimsical graphic, ready to surge from the industrial chic brushed-metal cap.

Zadig & Voltaire This is Her! No Rules

This is Her! It is a woody solar fragrance by perfumers Sidonie Lancesseur and Michel Almairac. The Zadig woman steps as lightly as jasmine wafting on the breeze while bringing a new solar breath to the rebellious sensuality of This is Her! With an unmistakeable vanilla/chestnut cream accord: sparkling bergamot and bright Sambac jasmine uplifted by the smooth milky notes of sandalwood and warm sand accord.

 

Zadig & Voltaire This is Him! No Rules

This is Him! It is a citrussy woody scent by perfumer Nathalie Lorson. The Zadig man virile yet sensitive carries off the spicy note of This is Him!Brilliantly augmented by the refreshing force of grapefruit. It’s buttonhole flower for the modern man, a geranium freshened by the breeze and a few sprigs of lavender. The fragrance trail bears an incense signature loaded with the tang of cedarwood and smoky vetiver.

Zadig & Voltare This is Her! No Rules and This is Him! No Rules are available in 100ml flacons at Zadig & Voltaire boutiques and selected stores worldwide. Come into the beautiful world of Zadig & Voltaire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision

Fashion house Viktor & Rolf, which specialises in creating conceptual and avant-garde designs, was founded in 1993 by Dutch designers Viktor Horsting (born 1969, Geldrop) and Rolf Snoeren (born 1969, Dongen). For more than twenty years Viktor & Rolf have sought to challenge preconceptions of fashion, and bridge the divide between fashion and art. Viktor & Rolf have designed both haute couture ad ready-to-wear collections. The duo is renowned for their avant-garde designs, which rely heavily on theatrical and performative fashion runways. After their graduation in at the famous Arnhem Academy of Art and Design, the pair began working together and relocated to Paris.

Initial collections established the extravagant silhouettes, witty use of materials and irreverent concepts the designers would come to be known for. In 2000, Viktor & Rolf launched their company logo of a wax seal bearing the monogram V&R, and began to devote their artistic talent to ready-to-wear collections. In 2003, the designers launched a Menswear collection which co-existed alongside the women’s line until 2009. In 2015, the designers halted the ready-to-wear production and returned once more to haute couture citing that they wanted to ‘explore the limits of wearability, function and form’. Additionally, like evey respected couture house Viktor & Rolf created some beautiful perfumes: like the female fragrance Flowerbomb (2004) and the male fragrance Antidote (2006), and Spicebomb (launched in 2012), and their flankers.

This month, a new version of the iconic masculine scent from Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb (launched is 2012) will be launched. Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision is the first flanker since the Spicebomb Extreme edition from 2015.

Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision is all about a classic and elegant aroma, long-lasting and truly seductive. Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision is an explosive contrast of green freshness and dark spices. It’s a very sensual fragrance, powerful and alluring, it is designed for night time. Darkness and mystery are new themes that are introduced to the line of this flanker.

The man we envision wearing Spicebomb Night Vision is daring – he is eager to be seen and desired.

Viktor Horsting & Rolf Snoeren

This oriental/fougere composition is created by famous perfumers Nathalie Lorson and Pierre Negrin. Notes of green mandarin, green cardamom, grapefruit and spices are followed by a heart of geranium and sage, on a base of roasted almonds and tonka beans.

Top notes: Green mandarin, Green cardamom, Granny Smith apple, Grapefruit
Heart notes: Geranium, Sage, Nutmeg, Black pepper, Black chili, Clove,
Base notes: Roasted almonds, Tonka bean absolute, Woody notes

Vision Spicebomb amplifies the original Spicebomb message and the innate power of seduction, focusing on the dark, mysterious nuances. The man we associate with Spicebomb Night Vision is brave, he wants to be noticed and desired.

Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision is advertised by handsome singer songwriter Jacob Whitesides. Jacob’s raw energy has made him a natural partner of this fragrance. The singer is delighted with this cooperation: “I am happy to announce that I am the new face of Spicebomb! Incredible things coming soon”.

Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision comes in a flacon, as the original, in the shape of a handgranade, but this time in an emerald green teint.

Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision is available as 50 and 90ml Eau de Toilette.

 

 

 

 

 

Gentleman Givenchy Cologne

French Maison Givenchy presents a new version of its iconic Givenchy Gentleman. A modernized interpretation in Gentleman Givenchy in 2017, followed by the Eau de Parfum edition in 2018. This Spring a new flanker will be launched, Gentleman Givenchy Cologne.

Gentleman Givenchy Cologne promises a new more woody/musky scent for manly-man. A more mature and a long-lasting aroma to capture attention instantly. Gentleman Givenchy Cologne is a fresh and enexpected fragrance that causes shock with its boldness and vigilance. This edition allegedly embodies the rebellious and free spirit of the Gentleman Givenchy character.

Top notes: Lemon, Bergamot, Petitgrain
Heart notes: Iris, Vetiver, Rosemary
Base notes: Musk, Ambroxan

Just like previous editions, Gentleman Givenchy Cologne is created by famous perfumers Nathalie Lorson and Olivier Cresp. The new composition is made of rosemary, precious iris, vetiver, and musk with fresh hints of bergamot and lemon.

 

A cologne for everyday use for all kind of men. Gentleman Givenchy Cologne is available as 50 and 100ml. Come into the wonderful world of Givenchy.

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

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.