Marc Jacobs, Sayuri Shoji, Annie Buzantian, and Ann Gottlieb: the creator, the designer, and the perfumers. This is the squad behind Dot, a perfume that’s quite on point. When ladybugs and butterflies come together, it makes for a lovely springtime walk. For his third perfume, the designer opted for a bottle that’s every bit as...
Taking up where Sharon Stone left off, Eva Herzigova has become the new ambassador for Dior’s Capture Totale. She incarnates intelligence and beauty, two elements that together constitute the flavor of life. A unique glint in her eye, and a face that, since the 90s, seems immune to the telltale effects of time. In this...
Red lipstick is the symbol of glamour and chic à la Parisian. Both intense and flamboyant, lipstick brings a woman’s beauty to the next level.
The bottle is identical: chiseled and draped. Bringing to mind the sinuous alleyways of Paris, evoking the tousled sheets that still carry the faint scent of a Parisian who’s already made her escape. This perfume that fills the room with its carnal, sensuous notes is nuanced with odors of cranberry and blackberry, and tied together...
“With admirable art, [Pygmalion] carved of ivory pure, giving it a beauty with which no woman can be born.” Ovid illustrated already, from ancient Rome, the paradigm of the feminine beauty. He presented Galatea, a statue to the pure and natural materials, rivaling the trappings of divine Venus. Ivory, an opine material between white and...
After its emblematic Inimitable and Sublime, Chanel is completing its line of iconic mascaras with a new volume-enhancing creation. This never-before-seen brush is simply dubbed “Volume”, and it’s making quite a name for itself with its perfect simplicity. Its “snowflake” brush allows for the superposition and reversal of long and short bristles for luscious, colorful...
With this scandalous creation, Saint Laurent offered the promise of many a sensual, seductive moment wrapped up in heavy layers of mystery that, like opium, promised to open the door to a forbidden universe where a torpid mind would at last let the senses take over. This spiced nectar from the Far East was as potent...
This perfume, created in 1925 by Jacques Guerlain, is the product of pure chance. Indeed, it is said that this legend was born by adding a dose of vanilla to a bottle of his famous perfume Jicky. A perfume inspired by a love story, that of Shah Jahan, emperor of the Orient, who imagined a...
“Je m’appelle Candy”. Next to her, two men try to steal the spotlight. The mischief in the air is as electrifying as the scent that is riling these two gents up: Candy l’Eau, the new Prada perfume. Miuccia Prada has called on three talents from the cinema world: Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, for the...
5: a fabulous, universal number for a “female perfume with a female odor”, ordered from Ernest Beaux by Gabrielle Chanel in 1921. This fragrance would almost instantly become iconic, with a unique and timeless shadow over all in its wake. “I am launching my collection on May 5th, the fifth month of the year, let’s...
