When I heard that Reese Witherspoon was working on a fragrance with AVON, I imagined it to be something floral. I look at Reese and I see feminine, confident, and a whole lot of blond hair. For some reason that says “floral” to me.
In Bloom, the fragrance that Witherspoon created with AVON, is a Floral, but it’s warmly grounded with Woody and Oriental notes. The combination makes In Bloom womanly, rather than girly, which I think is a smart choice because it appeals to a much larger audience.

Reese Witherspoon’s In Bloom
AVON sent me a sample to review and I could …read more

Mariah Carey’s Forever Eau de Parfum in the 1.7 ounce spray is a supporter of the Cancer and Careers Foundation. Cancer and Careers is a resource for women with cancer. They offer working women support and information as they work through their treatment. A portion of the Forever Mariah Carey purchase price will go directly to CEW.
Forever, “an opulent floral,” is meant to evoke a feling of “classic Hollywood allure.”  The bottle does look as if it came form the dressing table of some iconic beauty like Elizabeth Taylor or Lana Turner.
Top Notes: Radiant – Luxurious accords of Neroli, Lotus …read more

I’ve learned a few more details about the scent that Kim Kardashian has been working on with the Lighthouse Beauty company. The fragrance will be named after the reality tv star – it’s going to be called Kim Kardashian.

Kim Kardashian will be launched through Sephora late this Winter, in February 2010. The launch will be an exlusive with Sephora, but I don’t see any mention if it’s to be carried there exclusively forever or just for the launch. It will reasonably priced in two sizes. One is a purse-size rollerball .33 ounces, for $16. The larger eau de parfum spray will be 3.4 …read more

While leafing through a Redbook magazine today, I found a fancy-pants fragrance ad from 30 Days of Beauty.com featuring Halle Berry’s  scent, Country couple Faith Hill and Tim McGraw’s scents, along with Tom Brady and the Stetson scent.
The ad gives 30 days worth of beauty advice such as:
1.  Go natural – and forgo the contrasting lip liner.
15. Dress in complicated pinks – like a “champagne peach.”
22. Buy him something in brown. Masculine – yet warm and comforting.
I remember Stetson from way back and I’ve already written about Halle Berry’s scent, but I had no idea that Faith Hill and Tim …read more

Further celebrity scent news….. I read today that Kim Kardashian, star of the E! show, “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” is working with Lighthouse Beauty to develop a signature scent. The fragrance is slated to launch in Spring of 2010.
“Collaborating with Lighthouse Beauty was a really creative, innovative process,” said Kardashian, who also has a beauty and fashion blog, kimkardashian.com, and operates a Calabasas, Calif.-based clothing boutique, Dash, with sisters Khloe and Kourtney. “What’s so different about their approach is that they have worked closely with me on all aspects of my fragrance, the bottle, the juice, and even our …read more

President George W. Bush has a celebrity fragrance in the works.
No, I’m not kidding.  Apparently, he’s having some trouble raising funds for a memorial library, so he’s jumping on the Paris/Gwen/Diddy bandwagon, hoping to make his fortune in fragrance.  The President in the perfume industry?  Why not? It seems that everybody has their own scent-, clothing-, liquor line these days. 

I was able to get my hands on a sample of the not-yet-released fragrance, “M” by Mariah Carey.  It’s her debut fragrance,  and if you want to watch the Macy’s ad for it, you can find that here.
Sometimes (you know when I’m talking about) you really WANT to smell like a rosebud dipped in marshmallow fluff.  That’s how I would describe Mariah Carey’s new perfume.  It really is something different, like a “Gourmand-Floral.  It is not dissimilar to another celeb perfume, Britney Spears Midnight Fantasy.  But if you love Mariah, and I can see how you might, because her musical …read more

I can’t believe it – I thought Brit’s career was dead in the water. Apparently Elizabeth Arden (and the folks at WWD) think otherwise.
Source: WWD Beauty News
Can Britney Do It Again?
Despite the hoopla about celebrity fragrances slowing down – and the constant bizarre behavior of Britney Spears-Elizabeth Arden hopes for a hit one more time.
Spears’ latest fragrance, Believe Britney Spears, is due out in mid-October. Arden hopes it performs as well as the previous launches. Spears is said to have sold more than 10 million bottles of fragrance since her first scent, Curious Britney Spears, …read more