29 Monday Jun 2020
Posted in Perfume Reviews
Here are are, about to enter the month of July…getting closer to the “dog days” of summer. (See what I did there?)
Last week I sifted through my samples to find perfumes named for various animals. Here’s a look at what I found and spritzed…
Continue reading05 Wednesday Jun 2019
Posted in Advertising and Scent
Australian actor Rebel Wilson is the face of InStyle‘s May 2019 issue, and for this cover and interview, the magazine photographed her in a series of shots inspired by classic (if occasionally over-the-top) perfume ads of the 1970s and 1980s.
Here’s Rebel wearing a slinky black gown and reclining on a couch with a bouquet of orchids at her head…
11 Monday Mar 2019
Posted in Advertising and Scent
One of the major mainstream fragrance releases for autumn 2013 was Estée Lauder’s Modern Muse, with the tagline “Be An Inspiration” and an advertising campaign featuring the model Arizona Muse.
In the initial advertising for this fragrance, Muse (the person, with the perfume!) made an appearance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
In the print ads, including the one above, she poses inside the Guggenheim, which is immediately identifiable by its spiral ramp and its circular skylight…
04 Wednesday Jul 2018
Posted in Perfume Bottles
In 2000, Estée Lauder released a solid perfume compact in the shape of the Statue of Liberty…holding a lipstick in place of a torch. The perfume (in this case, Dazzling Gold) was contained within the statue’s base.
Wishing you a glorious 4th of July!
Image via eBay.
