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Serge Lutens will launch L'Eau Serge Lutens, a new unisex fragrance, in March. The clean scent is meant to appeal to a wider audience than the prior scents in the line, and to do well in the Japanese market, where lighter, cleaner fragrances are preferred...  

MOSCOW--(BUSINESS WIRE)--International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (NYSE: IFF) today announced the opening of a new facility in Russia, a 460-square-meter building that provides the environment and tools to support the company’s creative, technical and customer support teams. The facility is located in the business district ‘Moscow City’ and will serve the needs of consumers in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Central Asia. The new building is...  

Packaging for this product may vary from that shown in the image above Product DescriptionLaunched by the design house of Paris Hilton in 2006, JUST ME PARIS.  

Fragrance is a favorite gift to give and receive at Christmas time. And sometimes the bounty can seem overwhelming. Here, to help you get the most out of your new fragrances while they're fresh, are some fresh ways to use them.Contributor: Amy B.Published: Dec 01, 2009  

Online auction site eBay Inc. was fined euro1.7 million ($2.5 million) by a Paris court on Monday for failing to stop the sale of famous perfume brands like Christian Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy and Kenzo _ all of which are owned by luxury group LVMH. The... Christian Dior - EBay - Givenchy - LVMH - Shopping  

A French court on Monday ordered online auction site eBay to pay 1.7 million euros (2.5 million dollars) to luxury goods maker LVMH for unauthorised selling of its perfumes, the companies said.Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy administrator Pierre Gode said the court ordered the payment after eBay breached an earlier ruling forbidding it from selling LVMH brand perfumes such as Kenzo, Givenchy, Christian Dior and Guerlain.Gode said that Monday's...  

Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes is holding 24 days of giveaways for Advent this year. Now Smell This is hosting today's prize draw, which is for a limited edition handmade Thuja wood treasure chest from Morocco containing a 50 ml bottle of one of the perfumes from the Tauer line (you can see a picture on our last gift post here, or see more views at the Tauer webshop). The lucky winner will also get one sample of an "experimental, fresh from...  

Okay, this is just bizarre. A perfume company called Antiquity is engineering scents based (allegedly) on DNA drawn from celebrities, including Marilyn Monroe, Katharine Hepburn, Joan Crawford, Elvis and Albert Einstein. Of course, the formula by which they do this is a trade secret; why anyone would want such a thing is a mystery. It's just another odd outgrowth of the American obsession with superstars that goes far beyond their actual...  

Celebrity-branded perfumes continue to flow into the market. Are they worth more than a whiff? The long lineup of celebrities with fragrance deals resembles the invitation list for the People's Choice Awards. There are film stars, TV personalities, pop singers and socialites, all with a marketable image and, presumably, a thirsty fan base that will lap...  

With her White Diamonds and other perfumes, the actress turned celebrity scents into big business. Nowadays it seems like every actor and pop star is hawking a signature perfume. But the star who set the template for the celebrity fragrance category -- back in 1988 -- was violet-eyed screen legend Elizabeth Taylor.  

I met Yosh years ago when she ran Dave Egger’s Pirate Supply store at 826 Valencia. She sold her tiny bottles of gorgeous perfumes from a glass case in the store. Her business grew over the years until Yosh’s tiny bottles could be found at places like Barneys. Years later, Yosh still loves to collaborate with her customers on signature scents. She also offers fragrance flights and workshops.  

The Japanese designer Issey Miyake has a new women’s perfume, A Scent by Issey Miyake ($89 for 50ml eau de toilette, plus a full range of body products, at both Holt Renfrew and The Bay). The bottle is avant-garde, cut to look as if it's a block of cut glass by artist Arik Levy. (Miyake can afford to be esoteric: his groundbreaking ozonic L’Eau d’Issey has been a bestseller since 1992.) A Scent was reportedly inspired by the fresh air of the...  

Packaging for this product may vary from that shown in the image above Product DescriptionLaunched by the design house of Paris Hilton in 2005, PARIS HILTON.  

Christian Dior's Dior Homme line has launched a fourth fragrance in their cologne series, Ambre Nuit: After the successes of three cologne waters, Bois d'argent, Cologne Blanche and Eau Noire, here is the latest of Dior house, Ambre Nuit. A unisex, mysterious...  

(TrendHunter.com) Scents, perfumes, colognes, fragrances; whatever you want to call them, they work. Men and women respond to smells the way a dog responds to the mailman. I guess it proves that we are all just a bunch…