Have you ever imagined a world where you could walk into a beauty emporium, get an on-site, digitized skin evaluation, and then select products based upon what your skin truly needs? DDF skincare intends on making that world a reality when its DDF Skin Evaluation System hits Sephora stores next month. [WWD]
Frédéric Malle is about [...]

The art of perfume making is fascinating and complex, but even the most fervent consumers of fragrance are rarely privy to the process. All we know is that we like certain floral, musk, and fruity notes; how or why they wound up in a specific flacon—in a specific concentration and combination—more often than not [...]

I’m not usually one for claiming a signature scent, as my preferences tend to vacillate from season to season. But there’s one perfume that always winds up in the rotation, be it winter, spring, summer, or fall. That would be Frédéric Malle’s Carnal Flower, a tuberose-heavy sensual blend that perfumer Dominique Ropion created as an [...]

Frédéric Malle is having a busy year. In addition to relaunching his Web site (interactive features abound, as do weekly journal entries from Malle himself, who muses on food, travel, photography, and, of course, fragrance), the famed perfumer has just introduced four new ancillary products for some of his most beloved scents. If, like us, [...]

As a follow-up to the obligatory book she launched this month, Jersey Shore’s Snooki has plans to go big in 2011 with denim, home wares, and, you guessed it, beauty products. Looks like she’ll be facing some stiff competition, too. [Village Voice]
Miss America airs next week and Miss Delaware, Kayla Martell, who suffers from alopecia [...]

Glee’s Heather Morris, a.k.a. Britney S. Pierce, just nabbed herself a makeup contract with Flirt cosmetics. Don’t worry, Diana Agron. Your day will come. [WWD]
In more of a Britney S-pears kind of move, Samantha Ronson was spotted in L.A. last night with exposed extension roots. The horror! [Daily Mail]
You are what you eat, and this [...]

Last year was a big one for New York City’s Mark Hotel and Parfums Frédéric Malle. After extensive renovations, the former reopened on the Upper East Side with its signature Jean-Georges-designed 24/7 room service menu and Frédéric Fekkai salon fully intact, and the latter delved into home fragrance for the first time. Both marked momentous [...]

Considering the devoted fan base he has stateside, it’s almost shocking that Frédéric Malle has been operating sans U.S. flagship since starting his company nearly a decade ago. But that wrong has finally been righted with the opening of his new atelier at 898 Madison Avenue. Malle is calling his fourth stand-alone store a “profound [...]

When we ran into Barneys’ Simon Doonan at the Fifi Awards last month, topic one, of course, was fragrance, followed by a somewhat disjointed segue into President Obama’s stand on gay marriage—but we digress. As to the former, Doonan was extolling the virtues of the latest scent from perfumer Frédéric Malle, who frequently debuts his [...]

After a rousing public appearance at Barneys last week, in which he was swarmed by fragrance groupies desperate for a chance to get an autograph on their bottles of his new scent, the celebration for Frédéric Malle’s violet and bergamot eau de parfum, Dans Tes Bras, continued last night upstairs at La Grenouille. At the [...]