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Lacoste launches Eau de Lacoste L.12.12 Noir, a new fragrance designed to suit that endless, warm summer nights. A woody aroma makes up the base, with notes of watermelon, lavender, verbena and Egyptian basil rounding [...]

Parisian luxury label Comme des Garcons releases a new “Luxe” line of eau de toilette in Patchouli and Champaca fragrances for the summertime. Patchouli is derived from leave of the plant of the same name [...]

Tokyo-based designer grooming label retaW has just released a new version of their fantastic hand soap, scented with their “Allen*” fragrance. Having previously features the “Fiona*” and “Mark*” scents, the “Alen*” edition is a welcome [...]

Two of today’s most revered directors, Wes Anderson and Roman Coppola, team up to create this beautifully inspired short film for Prada’s ‘Candy’ fragrance. Taking inspirational queues from François Truffaut’s 1962, “Jules et Jim” and [...]

In a continuation of J.Crew’s range of “In Good Company” collaborations, the staple American brand has teamed up with D.S. & Durga to create a collaborative “Homesteader’s” cologne. The fragrance house, based in Broolyn and [...]

A new fragrance from Comme des Garcons, “Black” features top notes that are a mix of exotic African scents: black pepper from Madagascar and incense from Somalia. Middle notes feature liquorice, birch tar and pepper [...]

In 1975, Givenchy issued the first edition of their “Gentlemen” fragrance, a masculine combination of patchouli, vetiver and Russian leather notes. For 2013 the fashion house has re-imagined that signature scent for the modern age [...]

Thanks to Kickstarter, a new and exciting entrant into the fragrance market looks like ti will be coming to life in the form of “Commodity”. Allowing customers to test Commodities wares in their own homes, [...]

Lernert & Sander, Dutch artists with a sense of humour, create an ‘Everything’ fragrance for 2013: that is, a mixture of every men’s and women’s fragrance released in 2012. Over 1400 sample bottles have been [...]

Described as “an interactive journey into kaleidoscopic abstraction”, this film from iPad magazine POST brings together animation and all sorts of interactive magic to create a visual representation of the Comme des Garçons fragrance. If [...]