by Diana Ajih on December 19, 2011
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We love it when designers venture into scent projects because the process is different than putting together a designer collection. Dolce & Gabbana has released a new fragrance line called The Velvet Collection. This limited-edition set features six fragrances and each one touches on the heritages of Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana.
“Dolce & Gabbana’s Velvet Collection revisits the splendour of vintage Italian ingredients and derives its name from the precious texture of a fabric laden with timeless perfection and modern possibility.”
“Velvet: a material with a duel personality, luxurious but also simple, noble put also humble… this duality is at the heart of what we do.”
These six scents include ingredients such as neroli, gardenia, patchouli, tuberose, benzoin, frangipani, vetiver, and galbanum.
- Velvet Sublime- orange groves of Sicily
- Velvet Love- the carnations that grow in Lake Como
- Velvet Desire- the period of the Renaissance
- Velvet Vetiver- the scent of Mediterranean summer
- Velvet Wood- lacquered wood
- Velvet Patchouli- inspired by Stefano Gabbana’s first signature scent
Patchouli: the first fragrance I felt really belonged to me. It became my statement scent. -Stefano Gabbana
Vetiver: a tantalizing scent replete with elegance and classic perfection. I wore it as a boy to feel as an adult. -Domenico Dolce
I love the smell of Patchouli. It’s a must-have ingredient in my signature scent. The Velvet Collection is now available exclusively at Saks Fifth Avenue stores. Retails for $195 a piece.
by Diana Ajih on November 4, 2011
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It’s no secret that Katy Perry has a love for cats especially now with the release of her latest fragrance Meow following the release of her Purr fragrance last year. Katy Perry Meow Fragrance is a much sweeter fragrance with hints of vanilla, honeysuckle, and pear. Sounds so yummy!
I like the bottle design because it looks very retro! The perfume is housed in a lavender, cat shaped bottle. The fragrance will retail for $45 for 1.7 oz size and $60 for the 3.4 oz size. You actually save more if you purchase the bigger size.
Are you lovin her new fragrance?
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by Diana Ajih on October 31, 2011
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Supermodel Kate Moss has expanded her beauty line with the latest launch of her new scent, Lila Belle. The new scent, named after daughter Lila Grace, targets a much younger audience. It’s not only designed for girls who are just learning to become women, but also for women who feel or wants to feel young again.
Lila Belle has top notes of mandarin, osmanthus and freesia. The heart is composed of flowers of white lily, night blooming jasmine and frangipani, with base notes of sandalwood, amber, heliotrope and musk.
Sounds like a great stocking stuffer idea for the upcoming holiday season. Don’t ya think?
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by Diana Ajih on October 24, 2011
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This Week’s Craziest Beauty Invention: Swallowable Perfume
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From rubber ear covers that prevent flatiron burns to suction cups that plump your lips, we thought we’ve seen the wackiest beauty inventions — until now
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We love our perfume just as much as the next gal, but now we’re faced with an interesting dilemma: Would we swallow our go-to scent? A Dutch artist and a synthetic biologist came up with an ingestible capsule that releases fragrance from the inside out. See how this invention works so you can decide if you’ll pop the perfume pill.
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by Diana Ajih on October 8, 2011
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Move over, Kim Kardashian! Taylor Swift is here to prove that you don’t need to ooze sex out of every pore — or squeeze yourself into a skin-tight gold foil dress, for that matter — to sell a celebrity-branded perfume. Yes, the 21-year-old country star is the latest famous face to come out with her own fragrance, and Taylor Swift’s Wonderstruck is all about making a stunning first impression, with both its evocative memory-creating scent and the star’s first-ever venture into the realm of beauty. In the ads, Taylor sports her signature princess-inspired gown, ruby red lips, lush curls, and authentically innocent expression we know and love her for, as if to prove that this fragrance is all her, uncompromised — no matter how much assistance she may have received from perfumer Olivier Gillotin. The scent itself, which has just launched at Sephora, incorporates notes of freesia, green tea, apple blossom, and dewberry for an enchanting yet comforting fragrance that’s meant to mimic that first rush you experience when you meet someone for the first time. But is its sweet and perky scent – paired with that ultra-glitzy purple and gold bottle – a little too much for the star’s first stab at in the fragrance game?
- Alex Gambardella
by Diana Ajih on October 3, 2011
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Here’s a sneak peek at Illamasqua Freak Eau de Parfum that’s launching in October 2011.
“Illamasqua is undoubtedly the most vibrant and fastest growing British make-up brand of this generation. When creating all the elements of this fragrance, from the scent to the bottle, the packaging to the image, the prime focus has been to deliver a groundbreaking concept that delivers an irresistible assault on the senses, whether you have heard of the Illamasqua brand or not. Freak by Illamasqua has succeeded on every point of that intention. Illamasqua make-up captures the essence of night-time transformations, unleashing your alter ego and celebrating self-expression. We have now managed, with great care, to distil that attitude into a fragrance and bottle it. It’s time to dress up and howl at the moon. Get your Freak on!” — Joseph Corre, Illamasqua Joint MD
Illamasqua Freak Eau de parfum has top notes of Black Davana, Opium Flower, and belladonna that charms the senses into unrestrainable lust and passion, heart notes of Poison Hemlock, Datura, and Queen of the Night, and base notes of Frankincense, Oud, and Myrrh, that obsessively captures the senses.
Along with the launch of Freak parfum, Illamasqua has also created a capsule collection featuring three limited edition products, whose shades reflect the rare blooms that make up this most exotic of scents.
- Nail Varnish in Hemlock (pale opal green iridescent)
- Pure Pigment in Queen of the Night (blackened plum)
- Sheer Lipgloss in Datura (neutral mauve)
You can pre-order starting October 3rd at Illamasqua.com before it launches October 20th for £59 (75 ml eau de parfum); It will launch in November 2011 at select Sephora & SpaceNKs.
More pics after the jump…
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