Fragrances Boutique

If you’ve been following perfume news over the past month or so, you’ve probably noticed that Gucci Guilty is one of this fall’s major launches, complete with full-page ads and scent strips in fashion magazines, a movie-star “face,” a television commercial with a theme song, a somewhat hyperbolic press release, a tie-in to the MTV Video Music Awards, and the now-requisite Facebook page. It’s being promoted as a fragrance for a “21st Century beauty” who is “young, audacious, discerning…an iconoclast who lives life at full throttle…sexy and slightly dangerous.”

Guilty’s bottle is certainly eye-catching: it looks like an oversized, gilded (gilty?) Gucci purse clasp or belt buckle, with its unmistakable interlocking “G”s creating a window onto the juice inside. Gucci devotees will want to own Guilty for the container alone. The fragrance is classified as a floriental, with notes of mandarin, pink pepper, peach, lilac, geranium, amber, and patchouli.

Guilty seems to be more of a sheer, fruity oriental than a floral oriental…

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I recently heard an interview with Bonnie Blodgett (shown above right), who wrote a memoir about the experience of losing and rediscovering the sense of smell. I am intrigued, and have placed this book at the top of my reading list.

If you, too, have read or are planning to read Remembering Smell, let’s chat about it. How about an October book club…

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Actress Diane Kruger for the new Calvin Klein Beauty.

Deal at artisanparfumeur.us: get free shipping, no coupon code needed, offer good through 9/15.

Deal at beautyhabit: get a small cosmetic bag from A Touch Of Ivy with any purchase of $85 or more using coupon code MINIME, good through 9/15.

New at dillards: Kate Spade Twirl.

New at senteursdailleurs (Brussels): the Grossmith line.

Victoria’s Secret has launched Bombshell, a new fragrance for women:

Sexy today. Sexy tomorrow. Sexy forever…

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Penhaligon’s has added two more fragrances to their Anthology collection (“breathing new life into fragrances from our archive”), Jubilee Bouquet and Zizonia…

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We’ve got ten Scent Genie 4 ml atomizers (“Refills in seconds with the GenieS pump n go patented filling feature” — you can watch a video to see how it works here) up for grabs. US residents only, sorry!

Want one? For a chance to win, leave a comment…

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New at escentual (UK): Lolita Lempicka Minuit Noir, Guerlain Idylle Eau de Toilette.

New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Annick Goutal Rose Splendide.

New at macys: Beyonce Heat Ultimate Elixir, Gucci Guilty.

New at selfridges (UK): Juicy Couture Peace, Love & Juicy Couture.

In case you thought it was only women who were regularly subjected to overenthusiastic photoshopping, just take a look at poor Matthew McConaughey, the front man for Dolce & Gabbana's new The One Gentleman. Read more here and here. The title, by the way, comes from McConaughey's statement to People magazine about the inspirations for the new fragrance.

Laura Mercier will launch Creme de Pistache, a new fragrance in the Eau Gourmande collection, in October…

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