Tag: fragrance
What I’ve been wearing…
The new Marni fragrance, which I got to learn about weeks and weeks ago but only now am able to post about (media embargo til the end of last week and all!).
The top notes are spicy (including pink peppercorn, ginger and bergamot) and at its heart, rose, cinnamon bark and cardamom, while woodsy notes complete the fragrance. It’s eclectic yet also classic.
The polka dotted bottle, stout with a red topper, stands out, much like the designer’s covetable jewelry. And how cute is the Huggy Doll that comes with the purse spray? (I so regret not buying a Marni doll necklace when I saw them at the outlet outside London in the fall…Why didn’t I buy it? I do not know. Silly, silly me.).
Marni fragrance collection available at Holt Renfrew (from $52 for the Shower Gel to $175 for the 120 mL Eau de Parfum).
March 4, 2013
Hate the name, like the concept, adore the fragrance.
Womanity, Thierry Mugler’s new fragrance. Now, I get ,and (don’t get me wrong) am all for, the idea behind the fragrance’s name, promoting the solidarity of women. It all ties back to womanity.com, a site which was launched in March by Mugler as an interactive platform where women can share, learn and be inspired by each other.
Still, the moniker’s a bit of a silly tongue twister.
The scent, however, I love. Womanity is the first fragrance to combine sweet and savoury notes. (And while I knew that I like the combination when it comes to food, it turns out I’m a fan of the sweet and salty combo when it comes to fragrance, too.) The notes read like the ingredients of an appetizer from a molecular gastronomist–fig, caviar, fig wood and leaf–or maybe I’m just craving dinner at Colborne Lane. Anyhow, the result is, as you might expect from the name, very pretty and feminine.
The bottle’s something else, too. Not everyone’s cup of tea, with its very ornate oracle of the sphinx and ring (signifying unity) and chain (denoting the link between all of us ladies), but it’ll definitely stand out on your vanity amongst your fragrance collection. And it’s certainly earned its’ spot in mine.
Womanity, $86 (50mL) is available exclusively at The Bay at the end of August.
August 11, 2010
It’s been nearly a year and half since my last visit to New York — in other words much, much, much too long. I can’t even begin to think of all the shopping I’m missing out on at Top Shop and Century 21.
I’m hoping to head back there with a girlfriend sometime this year, but in the meanwhile, I’m try to satisfy my cravings for the Big Apple by wearing Sarah Jessica Parker’s new fragrance SJP NYC. (yep, that is how much I’m missing New York, that I’ll settle for just wearing a fragrance bearing its’ name)
Its a fruity floral blend with top notes of Italian mandarin, white osmanthus and wild red strawberries — first impression when I spritzed it on was that it smelled of strawberry bubble gum. Hmm, not so good unless you’re a little girl into Strawberry Shortcake.
But as you probably know, you should always leave a fragrance on for awhile to get a true sense of it on your skin (how it smells on you isn’t the same as how it smells on your bestie), and later on in the day I found that SJP NYC balanced out nicely (less intense strawberry, instead it develped into a pretty scent, uplifting and fruity but not too fruity), and it’s now one of my go-to daytime fragrances.
What I can’t decide about that is whether the bottle, with its hot pink canister and colourful prints — quite a departure from her previous perfume bottles — is fabulous or tacky. It certainly stands out amongst my fragrance bottles. Thoughts?
April 7, 2010
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