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Chanel hasn’t put out a men’s fragrance since 2004, but this fall they are releasing Bleu de Chanel, their newest men’s fragrance installment. Martin Scorsese has signed on to direct the “short film” to promote the cologne.
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Lady Gaga has partnered with Coty, a company that focuses on celebrity fragrances, to create something “unusual”. No surprise there. I certainly have no problem with unusual or different, but in the fragrance world that could be pretty worrisome. As long as it’s something that smells good and I know what it’s made from, I’ll check it out.
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Roberto Cavalli is ringing in his anniversary with a new fragrance! Anniversary, appropriately named, will celebrate 40 years in the fashion business. “During these first 40 years, I followed the dream of beauty. I created perfumes that applaud female sensuality and give women the possibility to wear a dream,” says Cavalli. The new scent is set to hit stores this October.
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Get ready for Miss Pucci, Emilio Pucci’s new fragrance set to hit store shelves this summer. The upcoming installment in the Pucci scent world has been described as a “sparkling floral must”. Laudomia Pucci, the image director, says that the new perfume was created to be “true to the origins of the House of Pucci”. Pick it up in select Sephora stores at the end of August!
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Betsey Johnson has signed up to create a line of cosmetics and fragrances. The designer, who “grew up in heavy stage makeup because [she] studied dancing with a brilliant Broadway showgirl,” can’t wait to debut her costume-like cosmetics.
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I bought my first bottle of Safari by Ralph Lauren soon after it came out because I loved his original Lauren. I also liked the romance behind the name- probably because I was thinking about the imagery in Out Of Africa, Robert Redford and that wonderful scene where he washes Meryl Streep’s hair. In my teenager mind it was the most romantic thing ever (still do, actually. But to this day there has never been a man brave enough to face my 2.5′ of waves and curls). I wanted Safari to evoke just that.
I remember thinking back then that Safari was a little too pretty. I liked it well enough and even finished the bottle (it was the gorgeous lay-down version), but it took me about 15 years to buy another one. Safari didn’t smell like it belonged in the early 90s and I wasn’t sure how it fit with Lauren’s Long Island horsey-set image. It smelled more… French, I guess. The green aldehydic opening, overabundance of flowers and gorgeous chypre base could have easily been a Chanel. Now that I think of it, none of the modern Chanel perfumes from the regular line (not the Exclusifs) has been even half as good as Safari.
I have a few older Safari bottles that are clearly the original formula, including the discontinued parfum. I smell a lot of galbanum and hyacinth which my nearly middle-aged mind translates now as romantic in that heartbreaking, full of longing way. The green and wood notes are dry and crisp and show a lot of elegance and restraint. The patchouli-moss-soft leather base (more pronounced in the parfum) clearly didn’t fit in with the early 90s style- it was too perfume-like in an era of non-perfume opposites: you either had to smell like candy (see Angel and all the horrible mall vanilla and fruit body sprays) or like chemical nothingness (someone please slap Issey Miyake for me). Even the bottle- a vintage looking carved glass beauty- didn’t belong.
It's no wonder that Safari has disappeared from the shelves that sell the Ralph line. For a while it was hard to find except for occasional appearances at places like TJ Maxx. From quick sniffing and spraying the current version at a couple of the discount outlets it's clear that the formula has changed for the very worse. It's a floral something or other without the galbanum, oakmoss or any of the notes that used to give Safari its backbone. Despite rumors to the contrary, Safari (or what's left of it) is still in production and can be purchased on Ralph Lauren's American website: $60 for the 2.5oz EDP. The notes are listed there as “An exotic medley of floral and citrus notes gently warmed with the essences of Bourgeons de Cassis, Jasmine Italian and Fleur d'Oranger”. I wouldn't bother.
Images:
Safari ads from 1993-1994, couleurparfum.com
Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in Out Of Africa (1985) from ew.com
Verushka in a YSL safari suit by Franko Rubartelli for French Vogue, August 1968
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Canadian model Robert Perovich was photographed by Jean Baptiste Mondino for the new fragrance Le Male Terrible by Jean Paul Gaultier.
source: MM Scene | ParisianBoys
Tags: CAMPAIGNS, Fragrance, HOME, Jean-Baptiste Mondino, Jean-Paul Gaultier, MODEL, MODELS, Robert Perovich
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Queen of Hip-Hop and R&B Mary J. Blige was recently spotted in New Orleans for the launch of her “My Life” perfume line. Blige collaborated with Carol’s Daughter founder Lisa Price to create the fragrance that she named after her second studio album. Aside from her new fragrance line, Blige also has a new signature line of sunshades entitled “Melodies by MJB” on her list of things to do. Congrats Mary!
Image courtesy of necolebitchie.com
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Victoria’s Secret Beauty supermodels Alessandra Ambrosio, Miranda Kerr and Candice Swanepoel announced WEdnesday, the highly anticipated launch of Bombshell - The Fragrance, hitting stores September 9th.
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Get ready for three new perfumes guaranteed to take you on a trip around the world. Un Jardin sur le Nil, Un Jardin en Meediterranee, and Un Jardin après la Mousson are three summer fragrance options offered to you by Hermes. Inspired by perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena’s trips, the Jardins collection takes us off the coast of the Mediterranean, sailing down the Nile river, and straight through India. Woody scents alongside floral spices give the consumer quite the number of options when picking out just the right bottle.
