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"    Photo: Oscar de la Renta   It&amp;#039;s all about beauty for Oscar de la Renta right now: the designer just launched a limited-edition set of nail polish shades this week, and now he&amp;#039;s unveiled a new collection of six scents. &amp;quot;We had lunch, and Oscar said, &amp;#039;I want fragrances for my memories,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Eliza Bolen, de la Renta&amp;#039;s daughter and executive vice president of the brand, told ELLE.com. That was the starting point for the Essential Luxuries fragrances, inspired by the designer&amp;#039;s life and loves and developed in collaboration with master perfumer Calice Becker. There&amp;#039;s Santo Domingo, a smoky, spicy eau\u2014named for de la Renta&amp;#039;s birthplace in the Dominican Republic and reminiscent of the country&amp;#039;s native tobacco leaves. The gourmand option, Oriental Lace, combines bitter almond and cocoa. &amp;quot;Oscar told us    there was a flower at his house that smells like chocolate. We were all very skeptical. But it does,&amp;quot; Alex Bolen, CEO of the brand, recalled of the hoya carnosa flower which provided the scent&amp;#039;s inspiration. Grenada channels the jasmine, orange trees, and roses that grow at the Alhambra palace in Spain\u2014a place which is also the source of the symbol that appears on the front of each fragrance bottle. The crisp Sargasso\u2014a unisex option\u2014evokes the salty sea air near de la Renta&amp;#039;s Punta Cana home and the marine vegetation that washes up on the beach. The ylang-ylang-centered Mi Corazon\u2014&amp;quot;my heart&amp;quot; in Spanish\u2014was made for his daughter. &amp;quot;There was a ylang-ylang tree in the square and when it bloomed, Eliza and I could smell it all through the night,&amp;quot; the designer explained in a press release. And Coralina, named for the stone indigenous to the Dominican Republic that de la Renta has used in both his home and his Madison Avenue boutique, is a timeless, elegant, classic floral with notes of mimosa and violet. The collection, available starting September 6 exclusively at Saks Fifth Avenue New York, Oscar de la Renta boutiques, saks.com, and oscardelarenta.com, runs $150 for a 3.4-ounce bottle. So what&amp;#039;s next on the designer&amp;#039;s beauty agenda? &amp;quot;I think we would love to do a lipstick. Oscar has lots of ideas,&amp;quot; CEO Bolen told ELLE.com.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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