Stylebook: Fall fragrances are wild scent-sations

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Compiled by LaMont Jones, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Lots of new items on the fragrance front, some more interesting than others.

Tova Borgnine, wife of actor Ernest Borgnine, has created a niche in the beauty industry and gained a following on QVC. Her new and fifth perfume, Love Everlasting, contains Arctic snow flowers, blue iris, white pepper, black raspberry, cashmere woods and a glacial accord ($38). It launches on the shopping channel at 5 a.m. and 3 p.m. Aug. 27 and will be available on QVC.com.

Tommy Hilfiger celebrates the 10th anniversary of Tommy and Tommy Girl with updated reformulations of both. Tommy 10 and Tommy Girl 10 contain new ingredients from across America such as Seattle rain, Kentucky bluegrass, Hawaiian pineapple, Cape Cod cranberry and Rocky Mountain blue spruce in his version and Indian River grapefruit, Mississippi magnolia, Virginia water lily and California honeysuckle in hers. Macy's and tommy.com will have them in September ($39.50 each).

Miss Sixty, popular for jeans and sportswear, has launched an eau de toilette of the same name that contains red currant, rhubarb, amber and a blend of fresh, fruity green notes; $45 at Sephora.

Fashion designer Betsey Johnson delivers her first perfume, a fruity "floriental" with tangerine, freesia, red apple and praline ($55 at Macy's and Sephora); Elizabeth Arden introduces spicy-woodsy-amber With Love ... Hilary Duff ($35 at both stores); and Desperate Housewives Forbidden Fruit by Coty Prestige seduces with a blend of peach, spicy pepper, wisteria and vanilla ($49.50 at Macy's).

And file this one under Decadence 101: Missoni, a fruity floral women's scent that debuted in Sak and Neiman Marcus and Saks in March, rolls out four body products infused with the same floral, fruity and Gianduia chocolate notes as the perfume. If the $45 shower gel and $50 body lotion aren't enough, there's an $80 body butter and a round pillar candle for $150. Find them locally at Saks in September.