TOCCA started in fashion in 1994 and released a wildly popular sari dress. They continue to produce fashion but it is their fragrances, more than their clothes, which speak to me. Each based on a real-life muse.
As the daylight begins shrinking so do the days left to me to review some fragrances that I think are pretty good but are just not going to ever make it to the top of my editorial calendar. I’ve outsourced some to my fellow writers here at CaFleureBon but still there were four sitting there staring at me accusingly. Rodin, Nicole by Nicole Richie, Marchesa Parfum D’Extase, and Thierry Mugler Fragrance of Leather Womanity get some love.
On Friday October October 29, aboard the Orient Express, Linda Pilkington, founder and creative director of Ormonde Jayne launched “The Four Corners of the Earth”, a quartet of perfumes which pays homage to the different parts of the world that have inspired her .Geza Shoen collaborated with Linda
When I heard Estee Lauder was releasing its very first unisex scent, Wood Mystique, I was overjoyed. Wood Mystique is definitely a more “cool weather” scent, with its warmer notes, its dark intrigue, and full floriental nature.
The trajectory that led a Ph.D. biologist to a café in St. Germain where a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology sits and “Voila!” like a coup de foudre (lightning bolt) romance blooms. This story, this history of love, is told in three special fragrances created by perfumer Dorothee Piot; Jul et Mad Stilettos on Lex, Terasse a St. Germain and Amour de Palazzo.
I have been intrigued with Odin as a perfume line for some time. The stark, dark bottles always seem so masculine, that I’m not sure I’m allowed to wear the perfume inside. In the last month, they released the seventh and eighth scents in the line, 08 Seylon, and 09 Posala. Fortunately, I have found that the perfumes are wearable by any gender.
