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When Magic is not Enough

A caress of flowers and woods… That’s how L’instant Magic , a flanker to the original L’instant by Maurice Roucel for Guerlain, was introduced to the public last September. The anticipation was mostly accountable to its being a new Guerlain for the m…

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New from Kenzo: Power for men

Kenzo is fond of flowers and thus in an unexpected twist he bases his latest fragrance for men on their image. Specifically he has envisioned the abstract tulipe sauvage: wild tulip, which Olivier Polge has materialised into Kenzo Power, a fragrance th…

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When it Comes to Scent: Are Men Animals?

In this recent discovery of Chanel commercials we spanned the spectrum from the surreal to the atmospherically descriptive and it’s now time to come to the anthropologically evolutionary.

Without spoiling much of the fun of watching the Chanel Allu…

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Is Poker a Game of Skill or Chance?

One of the joys of advertising apart from the stirring of the imagination is the recreation of other times with all the exquisite details of bringing an aura of a forgotten epoch into the here and now. For Chanel the mythical era has always been the 19…

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I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire

Chanel makes some of the most stunning commercials for perfume.
Some of them are revered and well known to a greater or lesser degree, most of which we have already discussed here on the Shrine. Some are rather strange and compelling in their weirdness…

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YSL Tribute Coming to an End…and a Little Poll

These past two weeks, ever since Yves Saint Laurent left this vain world for hopefully a better one (or so we have been lulling ourselves to sleep?), it has been a great pleasure writing about the fragrances of the Yves Saint Laurent brand, many of whi…

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Stunning commercial for Y, by Yves Saint Laurent

Serendipity works in mysterious ways and often in reverse.
I found this amazing and rarely seen clip from at least two years ago, as part of a longer film about Tom Ford (?), for Y by Yves Saint Laurent, while searching for something else. It features …

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Behind the Knee…

A commercial NOT to be missed! An old, rare (never seen it linked before) clip for Chanel No.5 with Catherine Deneuve seducing us through the screen, talking about her man and how they indulge each other.
Click here to watch La Deneuve!

You’ve probabl…

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New Face, New Scent

According to a WWD article Calvin Klein is launching a new feminine fragrance this autumn, fronted by sexy Latina actress Eva Mendes to a storm of controversy involving network censors. It was only the other day we were talking about the provocative ad…

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Obsessive Compulsions

When Calvin Klein came out with Obsession and Obsession for Men in the 1980s, his reputation as a sexual provocateur was consolidated beyond any reasonable doubt. He had started with hinting at it through his infamous Jeans commercials featuring an und…

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To distract…

Bad news don’t have to be announced beforehand, they strike like lightning in a sudden summer storm getting you out of your comfort zone into the realisation that things follow their own course no matter how you think they’re going. I was about to do a…

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Lamb, the fragrance

No, not Lamb by Gwen Stefani, lovely as the site might be.
Another one, which aired in Australia: a sure-fire man magnet!

(uploaded by melliepanther)

What do you think?

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Lamb, the fragrance

No, not Lamb by Gwen Stefani, lovely as the site might be.
Another one, which aired in Australia: a sure-fire man magnet!

(uploaded by melliepanther)

What do you think?

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Enchanted Forest of Desire

Watch this wonderful commercial for the Lolita Lempicka fragrance I came across. Subtitled L’Eveil du Désir (the awakening of desire) it is centered around the sensual awakening of a young woman who enters an enchanted forest when the apple, fruit of …

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The Dior Chypres series ~Miss Dior: fragrance review

“I will tell you of a perfume which my mistress has from the graces and the gods of love; when you smell it, you will ask of the deities to make of you only a nose”. It is in those words that the Roman writer Catullus speaks of the seductive guiles…

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Not another commercial!

I stumbled upon this lethal CHANEL commercial, originally found by Octavian Coifan, with actor Tim Duquette and directed by Marcel Langenegger. It just begged for commentary, don’t you think?(Uploaded by TIMDNYC on Youtube) Click to watch.The chronolog…

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It’s the mating season..roar…

Remember when we talked about the new XX and XY fragrances by Hugo Boss and lamented the loss of a great commercial clip on Youtube? Well, it’s here in all its roaring glory and you’re the first to be privy to it. Guaranteed! In the style of a National…

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Boss XX and XY: new perfumes, new campaign

“What exactly is human nature”? A tall order to answer that, you’d say, as anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers have tried for centuries to no avail. Hugo Boss is trying too, I guess, launching the fragrance XY for men and XX for women, rely…

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Be a perfume sleuth if you really Covet that bottle!

Sarah Jessica Parker impressed us with her Lovely musky foray into fragrance as we didn’t really expect a celebrity perfume to be of any considerable substance. But this was a serious perfume lover we were talking about (click here for her signature pe…

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Midnight Poison by Christian Dior: the clock strikes twelve

My subtitle might remind you of a great classic Blue Oyster Cult song, Astronomy and Parfums Christian Dior might be privy to the fact that it has awesome lyrics(click the link to read) able to convey poignant images.And so Christian Dior proceeded wit…

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I just might have to take it back…

Remember when Perfume Shrine was the first one to report on the new Chanel ad campaign for Coco Mademoiselle featuring Keira Knightley? It was the first one to meow about it too. Much as I hate to do it, I might have to take it back (well, only part of…

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She’s only got 2 & 1/2 expressions, for Pete’s sake!!

I am not a catty person. Really, I am not. But the news some months ago that the expresioneless, manufactured-to-be-a-star, young, skinny Keira Knightley would be the new face of Chanel, substituting Kate Moss in the ads for Coco Mademoiselle perfume b…

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The experiment that puts an itchy rash on the buttocks of science

Reading through other people’s thoughts and experiences sometimes reverts you to your own. I was browsing though Andy Tauer’s blog, reading about how he was subjected to a series of theater commercials prior to watching “The Manchurian Candidate” and h…

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Revamped perfume ad campaigns

Hot on the heels of the news that precious, talented, gorgeous Kate Winslet will be the new face of Tresor by Lancome comes Perfumeshrine’s entry today about campaigns for perfumes that have been relaunched with new faces, new concepts, new force. And …

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