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Katy Perry Wants You To Smell Like Her Kitty

It was only a matter of time.

Katy Perry will launch her first fragrance, called Purr, in November at Nordstrom and nordstrom.com, WWD is reporting.

The fragrance was inspired by a Catwoman costume Perry wears on stage. Fittingly, the bottle is kitty-shaped. And despite Perry’s penchant for the tooth-achingly saccharine, Purr won’t smell like candy or Hello Kitty’s garden (whatever that smells like). It has “top notes of peach nectar, forbidden apple and green bamboo; a heart of jasmine blossom, pink freesia and Bulgarian rose, and a drydown of vanilla orchid, white amber, creamy sandalwood and musk,” according to WWD, and will sell for $45 for a 3.4 oz. cat bottle.

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Cartier’s New Fragrance Collection is the Haute Couture of Perfume

There’s haute couture, haute joaillerie and now, thanks to Cartier, haute parfum. The Les Heures de Parfum collection, created by in-house nose Mathilde Laurent, is a flight of five fragrances, each named after an hour in the day. Britt and I got a chance to visit the Cartier mansion this morning for a tutorial with [...]

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Beauty

The Road to My Signature Scent Leads to Histoires de Parfums 1969

For years, I searched apothecaries, departments stores and Sephoras the world over in hopes of finding my signature scent. It started with CK One in middle school. (Which I’ve been secretly considering returning to, if only in jest.) High school belonged to Prescriptives Flirt, which–along with the entire Prescriptives brand–was eventually discontinued. My college and [...]

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Eau de Gorilla

Rumor has it Christopher Kane’s working on a fragrance. Unless it’s a collaboration with Dover Street Market or Six Scents, we’re not sure why. When the decision’s made to expand the brand into mass markets (Topshop doesn’t count) we’d expect shoes or bags at the start, and then perfume. But if there really is a [...]

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Desperate Scent Strips?

Everyone who reads what I write on this site probably knows a couple of things about me by now: I used to be a beauty editor and I have a wicked pop culture obsession. You also know that I am often irked by celebrity fragrances. Now, I realize the big business implications of fragrance and [...]

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Quote of the Day

“I’ve always been known for my scent, if it was in high school, or in the lifeguard truck (‘Where can I get that scent for my wife?’)…I’ve been offered fragrance contracts like everyone else and their dog (hey, that’s that good idea, all natural, of course) but all the elements never came together—the stamp of [...]

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Mid-Day Snack

Mid-Day Snack

Spot the Angel: Miranda Kerr walked Balenciaga yesterday, looking tres Parisian runway appropriate and less like Orlando’s paparazzi-fodder lady friend. Not that that look isn’t gorgeous too. {StyleFile} A Scent We’ll Never Buy: Kim Kardashian used to think perfume was made by putting flowers in a blender. She’s also famous for inexplicable reasons, including a [...]

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Beauty

Julia for Jil

Coty’s launching Jil, the new fragrance from Jil Sander, in Europe this September and America next spring. Yes, there was a Jil in 1997, but they’ve discontinued the old perfume and revamped the whole thing to reflect Raf Simons’ successful work at the label. The scent includes tangerine, pink pepper and ambergine and the streamlined [...]

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Dolce Joins the Film Club

We knew Naomi, Claudia and Eva’d landed Dolce and Gabbana’s new fragrance campaign, but we didn’t know each had a movie to go with their print ad. The Italian duo’s anthology collection, inspired by Tarot cards and multiple personalities, doesn’t launch until September, though they’d like your anticipation to start building now so they’ve released [...]

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Gainsbourg Bells, Balenciaga Smells

“Balenciaga has become my second home,” Charlotte Gainsbourg told WWD. Gainsbourg – actress, French music royalty and (official) face of the brand for the past year – is working on a fragrance with Nicolas Ghesquiere and Coty. Executives were quick to point out that she was chosen based on her almost indivisible ties to the [...]

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Marc Makes a Spash (Again)

For some people, the first hint that spring is on its way is jumping ahead an hour for Daylight Savings. For others, it’s that first day you really contemplate busting out that sundress you ordered on Shopbop three months ago (we miss you already balmy Sunday). For me, I get ready to break out my [...]

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