About the actual perfume called Soulgasm. Certainly a perfume is always about your personal vibe of the moment, how it resonates with your chemistry, mood, hormones, the desired “message” one wants to give out. If you like a sweet fruity floral *pop* with a sexy vanillic musky ambery base I say try it! I did and it is fun, lively and joyful.
Early in the song “Paradise By The Dashboard Light”, Meat Loaf sings this line, “and we’re glowing like the metal on the edge of a knife”. I’ve always found that to be a wonderfully descriptive phrase of both the simultaneously brilliant shine of the razor-sharp edge of a switchblade. I never thought it would be appropriate to describe a fragrance. Then I wore the eleventh fragrance by Profumi del Forte, Versilia Platinum and experienced a fragrance with a number of brilliant sharp edges which left me exhilarated.
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.
There weren’t much in the way of new launches announced this week but there was a huge story that took place last Saturday evening on of all places the Home Shopping Network. The result of that story could signal a sea change in how new fragrances are marketed in the future, especially in the celebuscent arena.
Sheryl Crow got it right:
“If it makes you happy-
It can’t be that bad…
If it makes you happy-
Why the hell are you so sad? “
So it is with DSH’s Kohl Gris.
Originally launched for the holiday season of 2009, this baby is timelessly decadent and sultry.
It would murmur “come hither” on any man or woman alive.
And it may be worn with impunity in any weather, it’s so subtle.
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.
