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Notable Pink Scents You Ought To Try

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

Pink-colored scents are stylish, upbeat and young. Every pink scent I encounter is a lush floral bouquet embellished with fruits or musk accords. The mingling of notes creates a dramatic flair to achieve a distinct character way above its peers. That’s the kind of image fragrance houses want to project to the perfume loving public.

Pink fragrances also embodies the contemporary art in the world of perfumery. Mainstream scents, more often than not, are light and ephemeral and not to mention, pink!

There are a lot pink-colored scents in retail nowadays. But what is it about the pink-colored juices that every designer fragrance house comes up with its own collection of pink scents?

Let’s go over some of the popular pink scents in the perfumery:

Thierry Mugler Garden of Stars – Pivoine Angel

This fragrance is peony meets patchouli and vanilla. The melange of florals featuring peony, rose and lily of the valley sets the stage for the aromatic gourmand Angel is known for. It’s slightly sweet, spicy and sprinkled with green accords. Pivoine Angel is part of Angel’s Garden of Stars’ flanker. This lovely pink juice was concocted by Olivier Cresp in 2005.

Femme Hugo Boss
Femme is a well-executed floral-musk fragrance. It’s one of the safest feminine scents around because it veers away from the heady floral category. Femme may smell familiar (reviews say that it smells like other floral fragrances) but in the dry down, it softens into a beautiful elegant floral that blends well with the warm musk.

Viktor&Rolf Flowerbomb
Flowerbomb is flower power in a very unusual grenade-shaped bottle. The first fragrance by Dutch designers Viktor&Rolf, Flowerbomb is a decadent floral scent where the sweetness is cut by the edgy notes of patchouli. Designed as a floriental fragrance, this feminine scent tops the charts in the women’s perfumes category.  

Lacoste Dream of Pink
Dream of Pink is targetted for young women. It’s fresh, sweet and very trendy. Touch of Pink and Love of Pink are part of Lacoste’s “Pink” scents. This perfume is charged with berries, iced tea, rose, lotus flower and sandalwood. Introduced in 2008, Lacoste Dream of Pink is just right for daytime.

Calvin Klein Euphoria
Euphoria is mysterious, dark and exquisite. The contrast of fruits and florals exude an alluring fragrance most fitting to a sophisticated woman. Some perfumistas say that Euphoria is so Angel-ish (Thierry Mugler). It could be the sweet-smoky accords giving off that distinct chartacter.

There are more pink-colored scents in the perfumery and some have become classics already. And with every year that comes, more and more perfumes are created and added to the already thousands of fragrances in the perfumery. The choices are infinite and sometimes or most of the time rather, they smell the same. It’s not surprising to confuse one designer perfume from its competition.

If you fancy pink fragrances, there’s more of them at discount perfume retailer, scentiments.com

Viktor & Rolf Perfume and Cologne Collection

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Dutch designers Viktor & Rolf gained accolades for their fantasy-themed catwalk collection. With their hodge podge designs, the Dutch duo have a series of fabulous fashion shows which were a spectacle in the eyes of the public. In fact, for the fashion critics, the name Viktor & Rolf is a landmark of classic designs and avant-garde concepts that always have something interesting to convey. It could be a page from the past, something like a tryst with the traditional cuts, hems and curves or a journey to the future with designs tagged as insanely out of this world. Upside down dress, anyone? Theirs is the freedom to pencil thoughts of exaggeration, dreams and illusions and transform them into luxury clothing much to the envy of seasoned and budding designers.

In 2005, Viktor & Rolf launched their first fragrance called Flowerbomb in collaboration with L’Oreal . As the name suggests, this scent is bursting with floral accords. The layers of flowers are softened with the edgy character of patchouli. The notes include tea, bergamot, freesia, jasmine, rose orchid and patchouli. The depth and complexity of the notes is a treat for those who love floriental scents. Flowerbomb Extreme, the sweet and darker version, is a notch higher in every aspect. It lives up to its name – it’s an overdose of everything.

Viktor & Rolf called fashion as the antidote to reality and applied the same to Flowerbomb.  A year later, Antidote, the men’s fragrance was launched. Designed by perfumers Alienor Massenet and Pierre Wargnye, Antidote carries a whopping 25 notes in its composition. The top notes are: mint leaves, Italian bergamot, mandarin, grapefruit and Guatemalan cardamom. The middle notes feature French lavender, geranium, nutmeg, cinnamon bark, freesia, orange blossom and violet. The base is composed of rich wood accords: amber, essence of Indonesian patchouli, cistus labdanum, vanilla iris, sandalwood, Texan white cedar, Guaiacum woods, tee moss, leather, Tonka bean and white musk. The concept is fresh oriental and it evokes a distinct smokiness that gives it a refined and polished impression as though you’ve smelled something like Aramis Life and Gucci Envy.

This year, another fragrance from Viktor & Rolf arises. It’s a far out cry from the florientals and woods of the earlier scents. This time, minimalism is the bomb. Eau Mega is a playful mix of light and fresh green notes. It doesn’t have the heavy floral and woody character of Flowerbomb and Antidote. The overall appeal is chic and very modern.

If Viktor & Rolf’s fragrances impressed you enough, there’s more of them at discount perfume retailer, scentiments.com.