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Nylon
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Nylon
YSL Beauty relaunches Le Vestiaire des Parfums with new scent MUSE
Drawing from the artistic heritage and revolutionary vision of Monsieur Saint Laurent, Le Vestiaire des Parfums translates the essence of his iconic designs into an exclusive Haute Parfumerie collection, meticulously crafted by renowned perfumers, and becoming the olfactory embodiment of the couturier's style and spirit. Image courtesy of YSL Beauty. At the centre of this relaunch is the new scent in the collection, MUSE. For this, Principal Perfumer Marie Salamagne blended enigmatic woody ink notes with soft powdery iris and sensual Bourbon vanilla to create a evocative scent that leaves a distinctive and memorable impression that is similar to Monsieur Saint Laurent's captivating muses. Image courtesy of YSL Beauty. Beyond the fragrances, Le Vestiaire des Parfums has also expanded to include a new range of Hand & Body washes for a complete sensory experience that gently cleanses the skin while leaving a subtle scent to prepare the skin to absorb the next layers of fragrance, as well as a curated selection of scented candles that pay tribute to the most iconic YSL destinations. The Le Vestiaire des Parfums collection is now available at YSL Beauty ION Orchard, Raffles City, select retailers, and online at
Hype Malaysia
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Hype Malaysia
YSL Beauty Reimagines Le Vestiaire des Parfums Collection; Introduces Home & Body Collection
It just hits different! YSL Beauty presents Le Vestiaire des Parfums, a luxurious fragrance collection inspired by the timeless fashion creations of Yves Saint Laurent. Each Eau de Parfum is designed to echo an iconic piece from the couturier's wardrobe, from the sharp lines of a tuxedo to the soft silhouette of a sheer blouse. Crafted by master perfumers including Dominique Ropion, Marie Salamagne, and Carlos Benaïm, the collection captures the designer's revolutionary spirit and daring elegance through scent. New Launch Highlight Muse The latest addition to the wardrobe, MUSE, is a sensual tribute to the muses that inspired Yves Saint Laurent's designs. With enigmatic ink notes, delicate iris, and warm Bourbon vanilla, the fragrance evokes the essence of his sketches and the spirit of those who brought his vision to life. Created by Marie Salamagne, MUSE leaves a lasting impression – bold, artistic, and intimate. Signature Scents Reimagined Every fragrance in Le Vestiaire des Parfums offers a distinct take on a fashion signature. Highlights include: Tuxedo – Spicy patchouli with black pepper and ambergris Blouse – Luminous rose with herbal musk and Cashmeran Velours – A dramatic rose-patchouli blend inspired by velvet Cuir – Oud and violet leaf for a sensual leather twist Trench – Powdery orris with citrus and suede tones Lavalliere – Androgynous fig with rose and geranium Babycat – Raw vanilla bourbon wrapped in suede and spice Capeline – Lily and creamy vanilla with a hint of leather Expanded Collection For Body & Home Le Vestiaire des Parfums now extends into body care and home rituals. A new range of Hand and Body Washes gently cleanses the skin while enhancing your fragrance layering. The newly released Scented Candles offer an aromatic journey through YSL's legendary addresses, from 6 Place Saint Sulpice to 83 New York. The Art Of Design In Every Detail Each bottle is a piece of art, designed by Suzanne Dalton with architectural precision and elegance. The sleek silhouette, thick glass base, and black Cassandre cap are paired with YSL's signature grain de poudre texture, echoing the fabric of the brand's iconic tuxedos. Even the packaging – a matte black coffret lined with a mirrored interior – pays homage to couture craftsmanship. Le Vestiaire des Parfums is now available at YSL Beauty boutiques and online, with prices starting at RM350 for the Body and Hand Wash, RM500 for the Scented Candle, and RM1,450 for the Eau de Parfum (125ml).
Time of India
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
BTS star Jimin's song 'Who' dominates charts for 1 year, BTS ARMY reacts
BTS star Jimin 's song 'Who' has maintained the #1 position on Korea's major music charts for an incredible 52 consecutive weeks. The title track 'Who' from Jimin's second solo album 'MUSE' has achieved a new record - staying at the top of the charts for 52 weeks straight. Breaking Records The story doesn't end with just 'Who'! Jimin previously held the #1 spot for 40 weeks with 'Like Crazy' from his first album 'FACE'. This makes Jimin the only solo artist in the world to have two songs that stayed at #1 for more than 40 weeks! Streaming Powerhouse 'Who' is also the most-streamed song on Spotify Korea, with over 68.19 million plays. Jimin's music has transcended mere chart performance to become deeply embedded in listeners' daily lives worldwide. His success shows us that music has no language barriers. On the Personal Front Jimin was recently spotted with V , and Jungkook , sharing a relaxed evening at a restaurant in Los Angeles. In the now-trending clip, the three bandmates are seen smiling and greeting fans as they made their way through the restaurant. Their casual yet stylish outfits also caught fans' attention. Jimin wore loose jeans paired with an oversized T-shirt, while V added a fashion-forward flair with wide-legged pants, a relaxed shirt, and a hat. Jungkook kept things cosy and cool in a hoodie and joggers. Fans flooded the comments section with admiration and affection. One user wrote, 'How cute and humble JIMIN is,' while another simply shared, 'Love BTS ARMY.'
Yomiuri Shimbun
10-07-2025
- Science
- Yomiuri Shimbun
Astronomers Get Picture of Aftermath of Double Detonation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The explosion of a star, called a supernova, is an immensely violent event. It usually involves a star more than eight times the mass of our sun that exhausts its nuclear fuel and undergoes a core collapse, triggering a single powerful explosion. But a rarer kind of supernova involves a different type of star — a stellar ember called a white dwarf — and a double detonation. Researchers have obtained photographic evidence of this type of supernova for the first time, using the European Southern Observatory's Chile-based Very Large Telescope. The back-to-back explosions obliterated a white dwarf that had a mass roughly equal to the sun and was located about 160,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Dorado in a galaxy near the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud. The image shows the scene of the explosion roughly 300 years after it occurred, with two concentric shells of the element calcium moving outward. This type of explosion, called a Type Ia supernova, would have involved the interaction between a white dwarf and a closely orbiting companion star — either another white dwarf or an unusual star rich in helium — in what is called a binary system. The primary white dwarf through its gravitational pull would begin to siphon helium from its companion. The helium on the white dwarf's surface at some point would become so hot and dense that it would detonate, producing a shockwave that would compress and ignite the star's underlying core and trigger a second detonation. 'Nothing remains. The white dwarf is completely disrupted,' said Priyam Das, a doctoral student in astrophysics at the University of New South Wales Canberra in Australia, lead author of the study published on July 2 in the journal Nature Astronomy. 'The time delay between the two detonations is essentially set by the time it takes the helium detonation to travel from one pole of the star all the way around to the other. It's only about two seconds,' said astrophysicist and study coauthor Ivo Seitenzahl, a visiting scientist at the Australian National University in Canberra. In the more common type of supernova, a remnant of the massive exploded star is left behind in the form of a dense neutron star or a black hole. The researchers used the Very Large Telescope's Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, or MUSE, instrument to map the distribution of different chemical elements in the supernova aftermath. Calcium is seen in blue in the image — an outer ring caused by the first detonation and an inner ring by the second. These two calcium shells represent 'the perfect smoking-gun evidence of the double-detonation mechanism,' Das said. 'We can call this forensic astronomy — my made-up term — since we are studying the dead remains of stars to understand what caused the death,' Das said. Stars with up to eight times the mass of our sun appear destined to become a white dwarf. They eventually burn up all the hydrogen they use as fuel. Gravity then causes them to collapse and blow off their outer layers in a 'red giant' stage, eventually leaving behind a compact core — the white dwarf. The vast majority of these do not explode as supernovas. While scientists knew of the existence of Type Ia supernovas, there had been no clear visual evidence of such a double detonation until now. Type Ia supernovas are important in terms of celestial chemistry in that they forge heavier elements such as calcium, sulfur and iron. 'This is essential for understanding galactic chemical evolution including the building blocks of planets and life,' Das said. A shell of sulfur also was seen in the new observations of the supernova aftermath. Iron is a crucial part of Earth's planetary composition and, of course, a component of human red blood cells. In addition to its scientific importance, the image offers aesthetic value. 'It's beautiful,' Seitenzahl said. 'We are seeing the birth process of elements in the death of a star. The Big Bang only made hydrogen and helium and lithium. Here we see how calcium, sulfur or iron are made and dispersed back into the host galaxy, a cosmic cycle of matter.'
Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Astronomers capture incredible 1st image of a dead star that exploded twice. How did it happen?
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. You may only live once, but some stars die twice. Astronomers have now discovered the first visual evidence of such a stellar event, a dead star that underwent a so-called "double-detonation." This could indicate that some stars could go supernova without reaching the so-called Chandrasekhar limit, the minimum mass that a star needs to go supernova. Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) and its Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument, the team zoomed in on the centuries-old remains of supernova SNR 0509-67.5 located 60,000 light-years away in the constellation Dorado. This investigation revealed structures within this explosive wreckage that indicate its progenitor star exploded not once but twice. Said star was a white dwarf, the type of stellar remnant that forms when a star with a mass similar to that of the sun runs out of fuel for nuclear fusion. The types of supernova explosions that white dwarfs undergo, Type Ia supernovas, are important to astronomers because they can be used to measure cosmic distances because their light output is so uniform. Thus, astronomers often refer to them as "standard candles."The first visual evidence of a double detonation white dwarf reveals hidden depths to these important stellar events, scientists say. "The explosions of white dwarfs play a crucial role in astronomy," team leader and University of New South Wales researcher Priyam Das said in a statement. "Yet, despite their importance, the long-standing puzzle of the exact mechanism triggering their explosion remains unsolved." Scientists agree that the genesis of Type Ia supernovas is binary systems of two stars in which one becomes a white dwarf. If this dead star orbits close enough to its living stellar companion, or if that companion swells up, then the white dwarf becomes a stellar vampire, greedily stripping material from its companion or "donor" star. This continues until the piling up stolen material has added so much mass to the white dwarf that the stellar remnant crosses the so-called Chandrasekhar limit, which is about 1.4 times the mass of the sun. Hence, this cosmic vampire white dwarf explodes in a Type Ia supernova. It is believed that in most cases, the eruption completely destroys the white dwarf. But for some time, astronomers have suspected there may be more to the story. Maybe white dwarfs can experience a second explosion. This research confirms that at least some white dwarfs experience double-detonations. The question is: why? Theory behind double-detonations suggests that in these cases, as white dwarfs are stripping material from a donor star, they wrap themselves in a blanket of stolen helium. This envelope becomes unstable and eventually ignites, triggering the first detonation. The initial explosion generates a shockwave that ripples inwards, eventually striking the core of the white dwarf, triggering a second detonation, the actual supernova. The significance of this to our understanding of Type Ia white dwarf supernovas is that it can occur well before a dead star swells beyond the Chandrasekhar limit. Recently, scientists determined that this double-detonation process would imprint a distinctive "fingerprint" with supernova wreckage. This should be present long after the supernova ripped its progenitor star apart. That fingerprint is now visually confirmed as being present in the wreckage of SNR 0509-67.5, supernova wreckage in the Large Magellanic Cloud first detected in 2004 and believed to be around 400 years old as we see it. Related Stories: — 'Vampire stars' explode after eating too much — AI could help reveal why — Supernova explosion's weird leftovers may contain a super-dense star — Peer inside remnants of an 800-year-old supernova and see a 'zombie' star Beyond being an important discovery for our scientific understanding of these events and solving a lingering mystery about the evolution of white dwarfs, the observation of SNR 0509-67.5 has provided astronomy lovers with some stunning eye-candy. "This tangible evidence of a double-detonation not only contributes towards solving a long-standing mystery, but also offers a visual spectacle," Das concluded. The team's research was published on Wednesday (July 2) in the journal Nature Astronomy
