Posts with tag perfumes

Clearly it's not enough for Naomi Watts to be just an Oscar-nominated actress with a beautiful baby and a super-famous best friend. No, the King Kong and Funny Games star has designs on the modeling industry, too -- she has just been signed up as the first celebrity face of Thierry Mugler's Iconic Angel perfume.

Any eagle-eyed dress-watchers at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala Benefit in New York last week will have spotted the suitably angelic appearance of Watts' dress... of course, it was a Mugler design. Crafty.

I'm a big fan of all of the amazing independent designers out there. In an effort to get inside the mind of the indie designer and find out just what makes all of these creative types tick, I present to you an ongoing segment I call Indie Designer Interviews.

Fragrance designer Diane Fisher is a woman obsessed. Obsessed with one singular scent: vanilla. Only she's come up with a variety of ways to make boring old vanilla seem...well, not so vanilla. Diane recently launched a new line of perfumes called Vmagique, all based around this common scent. I interviewed her to find out more about this new project.

How did you get started creating perfumes? Several years ago I started out with my own bath and body company but I quickly realized that my passion and strength was in the creation of unusual scents. I had more and more customers requesting signature scents. Before I knew it I was creating one of a kind perfumes for my clients. It was this very passion that led me to experiment and research with new raw materials including but not limited to plant extracts, absolutes, and distillates. I became fascinated with the the various aromas I could create. I have been on a fragrance journey ever since constantly creating and reworking scent compositions. After years of working on my formulas, the Vmagique line of perfume oils was born.

The question isn't whether or not Simon Cowell, the bitter, opinionated Brit judge of TV's American Idol will have a perfume. The question is: Would anyone actually go out and buy the stuff? And wear it?!

According to sources, "Simon has been approached by an American cosmetics giant to put his name to a whole range of products as well as a perfume. He's been offered a vast sum of money to do the deal." I wonder who this so-called "American cosmetic giant" is? Max Factor? I am thinking that a drugstore brand of perfume might suit Mr. Cowell just fine.

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I am not really a perfume girl, which is strange because I am very "sniffy," i.e. I love sniffing great things. However, perfumes and colognes have always been a little too flowery, musky, woodsy or simply just too overpowering for me. About the best I can do is spritzing myself with a light body spray that smells like cookies.

However, I received a sample of The Fragrance by Philosophy from that place that hands out cosmetics samples like they're going out of business, and I am hooked. The Fragrance is light, fresh, and feels citrus-y, though it doesn't smell like you've bathed in Lemon Pledge.

My sample is running out, since I've been using it all week, so I'm off to buy a bottle!