Jo Malone perfume, posh for a day, and thanks to my friends, for more than one. I said in my previous post on Paco Rabanne 1 Million that I would talk about perfumes given and received at Christmas. This Jo Malone Lotus Blossom and Water Lily belongs to the latter category, after all I couldn’t [...]
Juicy Couture was founded as a fashion house in 1996 by two women: Gela Nash-Taylor (wife of Duran Duran’s bass guitarist John Taylor) and Pamela Skaist-Levyas. Its becoming a multimillionaire business (now owned by Liz Claiborne) passed through the creation a “luxury” perfume line. I put “luxury” in brackets because I always found Juicy Couture [...]
Glow by JLo was launched in 2002 and it was the first time for this famous pop star in the perfume industry. Of course it was not the first perfume signed by a celebrity (do you know which was the first ever? No, not Britney spears, a little bit further back in time: Elizabeth Taylor [...]
This was the first Cartier perfume for women, launched in 1981. It was part of Cartier’s renaissance, which had started in the sixties. After the death of the last of the founder’s nephews, the company was bought by a group of investors, and a new range of luxury products called “Les Must de Cartier,” was [...]
Hermes perfume Un Jardin was originally launched in 2003 in a limited edition, but it soon became the first of Hermes’ perfume line called “Gardens.” It was also the first Hermes perfume created by Jean-Claude Ellena as exclusive perfume designer of the company. The aim of Ellena’s style is to evoke memories and feelings using [...]
Happy perfume is a typical example of fragrance whose name is more famous than who made it. I don’t think the people at Clinique mind though, as long as Happy perfume remains one of the their most famous perfumes so far.
The name “Happy” is not just a nice name, but expresses the purpose with which [...]
This Calvin Klein perfume is from 1988, and it is one of his most known fragrances. Even if it reached its peak of popularity during the nineties it’s still in the top ten of the most sold perfumes in the world. It was conceived as a romantic perfume, whose name is inspired by the classic [...]
Angel perfume for women, either you love it or hate it.
I have to confess that the first time I smelled Angel Perfume by fashion designer and photographer Thierry Mugler, I didn’t like it, or I should better say I really hated it. I thought it was a joke, a failed attempt of a perfume designer, [...]
Vera Wang Perfume Princess, sweet Rock ‘n Roll
Vera Wang wedding dresses were the daydream of many women long before being featured in the Sex and the City movie. As happens to many in the field, the expansion to the world of perfumes and fragrances was simply natural, with the creation of Vera Wang perfumes brand.
The [...]
Opium perfume for women, challenging bourgeois values one ad at the time.
Opium perfume was the king of the 80s, and even though now it’s starting to show its age there’s no doubt that it’s here to stay.
When it was launched in 1977, the name caused a lot of protests in the United States, which did [...]
