4 posts tagged "Nest Fragrances"
Beauty Nostalgia: Reminiscing With…Laura Slatkin
Beauty Nostalgia is a weekly column on Beauty Counter in which we ask influencers, tastemakers, and some of our favorite industry experts to wax poetic on the sticks, salves, and sprays that helped shape who they are today.
The Pro: Laura Slatkin, founder and CEO of NEST Fragrances
The Product: “In 1984, I was dating a man, and one night he picked me up for dinner in a long, black stretch limousine. In the back of the limousine was a Chanel shopping bag. He had just arrived home from a business trip to Paris, and he brought me back a bottle of Coco perfume as a gift (in the eighties, men in long, black limousines always started the evening bearing gifts). Coco had just launched; it was literally one of the first bottles ever sold. Well, the guy didn’t last very long, but the perfume became my signature scent for twenty years. Every morning and every night, I doused myself in Coco Chanel perfume and I lathered my arms and legs in the coordinating luxurious moisture cream, which always left my young limbs glistening. When I married Harry [Slatkin]—who notices everything—he adored me in Coco perfume, and if I ever forgot to moisturize my legs, he would always remind me, and if I used a different brand, he actually noticed that, too! It is nice to have a husband that is passionate about beauty. Since then, I have been an admirer of Chanel. When I launched NEST Fragrances, I designed the packaging as a nod to Chanel, with black boxes and a white font. Racing stripes and color were added to give NEST its own identity, but it was Chanel that provided the overall inspiration.”
Jason Wu Burns One Down
Three months ago, Jason Wu announced that he was entering the beauty category—for real this time. That nail lacquer collection he did with CND two years ago? Just getting his feet wet. For his grand entrée, Wu decided to go the fragrance route—the home fragrance route. “It’s an untraditional route for a fashion designer to enter the beauty market,” he admits while calling his collaboration with scented candle maven and Nest Fragrances founder and CEO Laura Slatkin, “a dream come true.” The two visionaries crossed path when Slatkin learned that Wu was actually a fan of her votive line. After she sent him a whole bevy of candles, including Wasabi Pear—”it’s one of his favorites,” she says—they got to talking and a partnership was inevitable. Using Wu’s preferred scent as a jumping off point, the duo added a host of exotic flowers to ‘pick [the fragrance] up a bit” only to find that most floral notes overpowered the pear. Except one: a rare category of orchid that imparts a subtle hint of powdery sweetness. Wu describes the resulting Orchid Rain scent, which is blended with leather notes, blond birch woods, and peppercorn, and officially launches this month, as “completely personal, completely satisfying, and really beautiful.” Could the house of Wu focus its energies on something spritzable in the coming years? “Definitely,” the designer says. “I love the beauty industry. It translates the experience of an entire collection into one little object,” he continues, pointing out the synergy between the hue of his candle’s gold lid and a near identical gilded belt buckle from his Spring collection. The print on the ceramic container also revisits a fabric from his runway. “This just may be the start of something new for me.”
$48, available April 2012 at Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman.
Calvin Klein Home X Nest Fragrances; More Bad News For The Brazilian Blowout; And More…
It looks like Jason Wu isn’t the only fashion power house inking a deal with Nest Fragrances. Calvin Klein Home has apparently partnered with Laura Slatkin’s scented candle company to offer a new range of fragrant votives due out this fall. [Home Textiles Today]
In a logical beauty move, Katy Perry has followed her new blue hair with a fresh blue-tipped manicure. [Us]
The manufacturers of the controversial Brazilian Blowout straightening treatment, which has come under fire for containing a potentially dangerous amount of formaldehyde, received another blow this week. The California attorney general has mandated that the brand label its product carcinogenic. [WWD]
In other quick beauty fix health scares, there has been a recall on substandard French breast implants, although market research indicates that this unsettling piece of information shouldn’t slow the plastic surgery boom. [NYDN]
Lighting The Eternal Flame With Vera Wang
I’ve been a bridesmaid twice, and both times I was pretty relieved that I didn’t trip when walking down the aisle or forget to fluff the bride’s train at the appropriate moment. Now that I’m planning my own wedding, I’m stuck on what to give the bridesmaids as a thank-you for performing similarly challenging big-day duties. I contemplated shoulder bags made from recycled sails (trust me, they’re cool, and the wedding is in Rhode Island) but recently nixed them in favor of Vera Wang’s new scented candles. The designer has teamed up with candle queen Laura Slatkin of Nest Fragrances to create Floral Bouquet, a scent that’s layered with lily of the valley, gardenia, and Damask rose and finished with green leaves. It’s modern, fresh, and not too fussy. Even better, once the wick has burned, the silver-plated container turns into a keepsake vase to hold flowers—or future bouquet catches.