Dahlia Noir, Riccardo Tisci’s first fragrance for the house of Givenchy, will debut in August and feature a print campaign starring his muse Mariacarla Boscono. Love the visuals. [The Fashion Spot]
Also launching a fragrance this year: Nicki Minaj. It will reportedly smell like a sexy and confident woman and have a “va-va-voom factor.” [Examiner via [...]

Paris Hilton has been vindicated! Sort of. HairTech International Inc., which was suing the heiress on grounds that she wore a competitor’s locks in 2008 and skipped out on launch-party hosting duties back in ‘07, has dropped all of its charges. [TMZ]
“The folks in Japan are working on olfactory technology to allow [the mobile phone] [...]

Lady Gaga’s trim body isn’t due to physically demanding onstage dancing (read: air-humping and hip thrusting) alone. According to her choreographer LaurieAnn Gibson, Gaga keeps a pretty strict diet while on tour. “It’s all about salsa with grain chips, tofu, turkey slices, hummus, and coconut water,” Gibson says. If you were wondering how you [...]

Fans of beauty and fashion one-stop shopping may want to sit down for this one: Sephora has announced plans to launch a denim line. Its new Lerock jeans collection is being called Lift Up, referring to its ability to push up posteriors. So far, rollout plans include Italian retail stores only, but fingers crossed the [...]

Helen Mirren, Catherine Deneuve, and Sophia Loren round out a new top ten list of the most beautiful women in the world. “The difference between pretty and beautiful is that pretty is temporal, whereas beautiful is eternal,” according to Claudia Schiffer, who, at 40 years old, came in second behind Penélope Cruz. It looks like [...]

Fragrance can be a mystifying beast. With all the celebrity endorsements, eye-catching bottles, elaborate marketing campaigns, and expansive ingredients lists, it’s often hard to sort out the winners from the stinkers. Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez set out to do just that with their new book, Perfumes: The A-Z Guide (Penguin; 2009). A leading scholar [...]

The fragrance world turned out in full force to celebrate the Fifi Awards last night. The annual ceremony put on by the Fragrance Foundation is oft compared to the Oscars, but this year’s presentation seemed to be more fashion week-meets-the Grammys. For starters, it was staged at the downtown Armory, Marc Jacobs’ show venue of [...]

It was recently announced that Paris Hilton will take home the Celebrity of the Year award at the Fifis on May 27th, thus joining Katie “Jordan” Price—her why-is-she-famous U.K. counterpart—who just received the same honor across the pond. Coupled with that new five-year contract we told you about last month, it’s safe to say that [...]

Ever the business tycoon, Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has just inked a deal with Parlux Fragrances that will join the company responsible for turning Paris Hilton and Jessica Simpson into sniffable entities with his licensing company, Iconic Fragrances. This means a ton of royalties, profit sharing, and stock options for the rap mogul, plus new fragrances [...]

Say what you will about Paris Hilton; the heiress has proven herself to be quite the pusher of perfume. Eight different scents already bear her name, and while we don’t own a single one, her fan base is apparently growing just fine without us. So fine, in fact, that Parlux Fragrances, Inc. has just signed [...]