Brioni: Every Girl’s Crazy About A Sharp Smellin’ Man

When it comes to men’s suits the top of the line is the Italian label Brioni. Their suits begin at $5,000 and can go much higher depending on the fabric chosen. A Brioni suit is said to take 183 steps over 18 hours to be made by one of 900 tailors in the Brioni factory in Italy. Like many other men’s clothing lines Brioni wants to create a fragrance to pair with their luxury threads. The remaining task was to put juice in the bottle that would also live up to the name on the bottle.

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Jo Malone Cologne Intense Collection: Christine Nagel At The Bat

When a baseball player hits a single, a double, a triple, and a home run, in one game, that is called “hitting for the cycle”. It is nothing short of extraordinary and shows the versatility of the hitter to be able to hit safely in every way. Jo Malone’s new in-house perfumer, Master Perfumer Christine Nagel has accomplished a similar feat in the newly released four fragrance collection for Jo Malone, Cologne Intense. Mme. Nagel has fashioned four different fragrant hits and at the same time shown her versatility as an artist. Each one of the four fragrances has a distinct personality and at the same time feels as if they are also part of the Jo Malone collection of fragrances.

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Marc Jacobs Bang: Bang-A-Gong Get It On!

In the boring fresh and clean wasteland that is the men’s department store fragrance counter, a perfume lover despairs on ever smelling something new. You wonder if any new perfumer will ever take a risk on something that is not “fresh and clean” which is made to appeal to the Axe generation. That is why when there is a new mass men’s fragrance release that dares to go in a different direction I want to stand up and applaud. When it is as excellent as Marc Jacobs Bang is, I want to shout “Halleleujah!”

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Thierry Mugler Womanity: Energize Mr. Mugler!

Thierry Mugler has produced some singular perfumes under his fragrance label. Starting in March of this year Thierry Mugler began to beat the drums about their new fragrance, Womanity. In typical Thierry Mugler fashion it was full of flowery language and felt like it should have ended like the old opening to Star Trek with “To Boldly Go Where No Woman Has Gone Before!” Then the note list arrived and while there was much there that was familiar there was something there that was definitely a new, if not final, frontier in perfumery; a caviar accord. A caviar accord in a women’s fragrance? The truth is that Womanity and the caviar accord with it are much more subdued than you would expect and that quietness is perhaps the most surprising thing about Womanity.

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