A quick reminder: there are less than 2 weeks left to enter the Prix Eau Faux! And now on to the poll…

1. What fragrance are you wearing today?

2. Name a fragrance you were so sure you would hate that you weren’t even going to try it, but for whatever reason you did try it and you loved it.

3. Name a fragrance you were convinced would be perfect for you, but you hated it.

4. What’s your favorite (print) magazine?

5. What’s the last (good) movie you watched?

Answer as many or as few as you like. And my answers…

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In conjunction with the upcoming launch of their Peony makeup collection, L’Occitane will introduce a Paeonia / Peony fragrance:

The fragrant atmosphere of a garden filled with peonies on a spring morning…

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Ghost will launch Ghost Captivating, a new perfume for women, next month.

The notes include bergamot, mandarin, guava, freesia, rose…

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New at first-in-fragrance (Germany): Histoires de Parfums Moulin Rouge.

New at neimanmarcus: Burberry Sport

Deal at parfumsdelrae: get free shipping, no coupon code needed, offer good through 3/31.

New at sephora: Givenchy Summer Vibrations, Thierry Mugler Sunessence.

New at ulta: Calvin Klein CK One Summer & Eternity Summer, Burberry Sport.

John Varvatos will launch Artisan Black, a new limited edition flanker to last year’s John Varvatos Artisan, this April. The new scent is said to be “a longer lasting — more woodsy and musky — version of Artisan”…

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Among her many creations: Banana Republic Jade for women, Burberry The Beat, Bvlgari Rose Essentielle…

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I never read a word by the Marquis de Sade, the subject of yesterday’s post, but French writer Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is one of my favorite authors. I started, just as she did, with the Claudines, and eventually I worked my way through most everything else, and then I followed that up with a few biographies. That was many years ago now, and although I’ve re-read most of her books since then, some more than once, it’s been awhile. Last night I took out My Mother’s House and Sido, and skimmed through the sections where she writes about her mother’s garden, and I glanced quickly through The Vagabond and Chéri to remind myself why I so loved them.

Colette’s life, like her writing, was turbulent, passionate, and above all, unconventional. I know there was, at some point, a Claudine perfume — wouldn’t it be fun to smell that now? — but I have no idea what perfume Colette wore herself. If I had to assign her a perfume, it would surely be a heady floral — Piguet Fracas is perhaps too obvious, but it fits. If you’ll pardon the anachronism, Etat Libre d’Orange Jasmin et Cigarette would also work, although you’d have to amp it up: more (indolic) jasmine, more smoke, and maybe a hint of leather or some other animalic note in the base.

Histoires de Parfums has done something entirely different…

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Leslie Blodgett of Bare Escentuals has launched Golden Light, a new fragrance in her limited edition Perfume Diaries series (see Perfume Diaries Bare Skin and Santa Barbara).

Like sunshine in a bottle, this bright and happy scent…

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New at sephora: Philosophy Field of Flowers.

Clarins will launch Eau des Jardins, a new fragrance in their aromatherapeutic ‘Well Being’ line (formerly known as the ‘Feel-Good Fragrance’ line), in May:

Uplifts, Refreshes, Captivates…

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