The coming winter smells not of pine needles and tangerines, but of verbena, damask rose and currants from new perfumes. Our beauty editor Alla Sharandina uncorked all the most heady and delicious bottles.
Darling Nikki, Vilhelm Parfumerie
The Swede Jan Allgren dedicated the new eau de parfum water with smoky, pepper and currant notes to Russia. But we hasten to assure the public: no insinuations about Nicky and Matilda. The title was a song by Prince, which served as the password for a Moscow club in the late 1980s.
Gentleman, Givenchy
From the earthy woody scent of 1975, its namesake only has a name, a leather accord and something elusive in the figure and the twist of the cap. A gentleman of the new generation breathes with mists, that is, noble lavender and iris. Such a fougere "heart" does not want peace at all - that is why Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Vronsky from Anna Karenina with Keira Knightley became the face of eau de toilette.
La vie est belle L'Eclat, Lancome
Having received a brief on Lancome five years ago, perfumers Dominique Ropillon and Anne Flipo have surely retired for a long time. Because the brand ordered them "the quintessence of unconditional happiness." Then it was an orange blossom on a nut praline. The current happiness is a roe vegan: only white flower absolutes, citruses and vanilla.
Pelargonium, Aedes de Venustas
Perfumer Natalie Feistauer made up her formula, looking at the pictures of little Dutchmen, where the wilting pelargonium in a vase on a wooden table was often surrounded by vegetables and game brought from the hunt.
L'Envol de Cartier
A new flanker can make your head spin. In addition to guaiac wood and musk, which caused a similar effect from its predecessor, L'Envol de Cartier last year, in the new men's eau de toilette, wormwood rustles and lemon sprays rush. All these volatile particles are reliably held inside by a guilloche retainer, similar to the steering wheel of the airship of the aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. At the beginning of the 20th century, he flew over the Parisian mansards directly from his apartment on Rue Washington, 9. Our man - to the bakery in an airship!
La Femme Intense, L'Homme Intense, Prada
A super feminine bouquet of tuberose and ylang-ylang found a kindred spirit in a harsh still life of ambergris and tonka beans. They still have something in common - a rich note of patchouli in the base.
L'Homme, Lacoste
Crocodiles rarely make it to the 90th anniversary celebrated by the tennis emblem, attacking from the spicy new L'Homme Lacoste. It heats up with citrus essences, then makes a precise serving of rhubarb, peppery ginger and jasmine and finishes the game with a win-win combo of warm cedar, musk and vanilla.
Boss Bottled Man of Today Collector's Edition, Hugo Boss
Boss Bottled remains true to the woody-spicy scent of 1998. But he dressed up himself: a limited edition of the collector's edition of Man of Today came out in a bottle of gunpowder.
Parisi, Terroni Orto
Alessandro Gualteri, nicknamed the Crazy Nose (the second brand of the perfumer - Nasomatto) has knocked out the Orto Parisi collection with a definitive scent with a gun steel and volcanic lava lid. Its name is the dismissive "collective farmers" that northerners throw at the residents of Campania working in the fields. But Terroni themselves do not doubt that they are the real salt of the earth. So the perfume turned out to be a tart, bitter and slightly flammable mixture of pomegranate juice, whiskey, marijuana and a haze coming from the crater of Vesuvius.
Lui, Guerlain
Eau de parfum immediately indicates the breadth of their views: Lui is translated from French as "his" and "her". Behind the androgynous scent, in the center of which has blossomed a carnation, there is an ambiguous benzoin trail - either floral or resinous.
Stricnina, V Canto
The best poison consulting has always been provided by Italian aristocrats from the Medici to the Borgia. The Terenzi family of perfumery, who lives next to the residence of Lucrezia Borgia in Tuscany, was saturated with the corresponding ideas and wrote the fragrance "Strychnine" - a deadly sweet mixture of passionfruit, currant, magnolia and belladonna.
Le Frenchy, Guerlain
The wooden frame is red, the twisted Guerlain inscription on it is white, the fragrance itself in transparent glass is blue. The French tricolor wraps a fragrance about a Parisian - an athlete, aesthete, hedonist and eco-activist. The new perfume is a paraphrase of Verveine from 1983: verbena also comes to the fore.
Celebrate N. O. W., Escada
N. O. W. stands for Nature of Women. The strong-willed female nature is embodied in the advertising campaign by the fashion journalist, Swede Sophie Farman. The new scent in a feminist way has resolutely won the right to mix languid magnolia with “masculine” ginger and tonka beans.
Absolu de Parfum, Chloe
For the tenth anniversary of the main perfume line Chloe, the absolute of the capital rose from Grasse arrived in time. Around him, he gathered a class homogeneous company: vanilla absolute, damask rose extract and patchouli. And he fastened this union with a corsage ribbon woven with gilded threads.
Dahlia Divin Eau de Parfum Nude, Givenchy
The new Dahlia Divin Eau de Parfum Nude has been integrated into the "divine" line of Givenchy: naked not for the weather, hot beyond her years. This is the fourth flanker in the collection, a companion of floral-woody eau de parfum and eau de toilette, as well as powdery "nectar".
