Darling is a women's fragrance from Coty, Inc.

Coty, Inc.

Coty, Inc. is the world's largest fragrance company, founded in 1904. It is also a beauty products manufacturer whose main businesses are fragrances , followed by color cosmetics , toiletries and skin care...

, and the first perfume

Perfume

Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and/or aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces "a pleasant scent"...

 to be endorsed by Kylie Minogue

Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE - often known simply as Kylie - is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter, and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing...

, released on November 9, 2006. The perfume was designed by Thierry Wasser

Thierry Wasser

Thierry Wasser is a contemporary perfumer who as of 2008 was appointed as the in-house perfumer of Guerlain. Prior to this he worked under the fragrance firms Firmenich and Givaudan....

 from Firmenich

Firmenich

Firmenich SA is a private Swiss company in the perfume and flavor business, it is the largest privately-owned company in the perfume and flavor business, and ranks number two worldwide., Firmenich has created many of the world’s favorite perfumes for over 100 years and produced a number of the most...

. Wasser wanted to create a perfume which reflects the Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n singer: the key notes are Australian sandalwood, star fruit

Carambola

Carambola, also known as starfruit, is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola, a species of tree native to the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. The fruit is a popular food throughout Southeast Asia, the South Pacific and parts of East Asia...

, freesia

Freesia

Freesia Ecklon ex Klatt is a genus of 14–16 species of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae, native to Africa. Of the 14 species, 12 are native to Cape Province, South Africa, the remaining two to tropical Africa, one species extending north of the equator to Sudan.The genus was named in honor...

 and Boronia flower.

The following versions of Darling

In 2007 the successor of the perfume, Sweet Darling came into the markets. Having the base as its predecessor, cotton candy

Cotton candy

Cotton candy , candy floss or candyfloss or candy buttox , or fairy floss is a form of spun sugar. Since cotton candy is mostly air, a small initial quantity of sugar generates a tremendously greater final volume, causing servings to be physically large and voluminous...

, patchouli

Patchouli

Patchouli is a species from the genus Pogostemon and a bushy herb of the mint family, with erect stems, reaching two or three feet in height and bearing small, pale pink-white flowers...

 and vanilla

Vanilla

Vanilla is a flavoring derived from orchids of the genus Vanilla, primarily from the Mexican species, Flat-leaved Vanilla . The word vanilla derives from the Spanish word "", little pod...

 were added into the original substance. Sweet Darling was a limited edition, being available only in 2007. In 2008 the third version of Darling, Sexy Darling

Sexy Darling (fragrance)

Sexy Darling is a women's fragrance from Coty, Inc., and the Third perfume to be endorsed by Kylie Minogue. Sexy Darling was created by Sophie Labbe.- Scent :...

, was released. It was created by Sophie Labbe and it contains blood orange

Blood orange

The blood orange is a variety of orange with crimson, blood-colored flesh. The fruit is smaller than an average orange; its skin is usually pitted, but can be smooth. The distinctive dark flesh color is due to the presence of anthocyanins, a family of pigments common to many flowers and fruit, but...

, pear

Pear

The pear is any of several tree species of genus Pyrus and also the name of the pomaceous fruit of these trees. Several species of pear are valued by humans for their edible fruit, but the fruit of other species is small, hard, and astringent....

,pink pepper, red rose

Rose

A rose is a woody perennial of the genus Rosa, within the family Rosaceae. There are over 100 species. They form a group of erect shrubs, and climbing or trailing plants, with stems that are often armed with sharp prickles. Flowers are large and showy, in colours ranging from white through yellows...

, belle de nuit, jasmine

Jasmine

Jasminum , commonly known as jasmines, is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family . It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World...

, sandalwood and musk

Musk

Musk is a class of aromatic substances commonly used as base notes in perfumery. They include glandular secretions from animals such as the musk deer, numerous plants emitting similar fragrances, and artificial substances with similar odors. Musk was a name originally given to a substance with a...

. In 2011 a new incarnation of Darling was released as Dazzling Darling.

Other Kylie Fragrances

Other fragrances also released by Kylie

Couture, Showtime, Showtime Sparkle, Pink Sparkle

Pink Sparkle

Pink Sparkle is a womans fragrance from Coty, Inc., and is the seventh endorsed fragrance by Kylie Minogue.-Information:Pink Sparkle was released in 2010. It contains the scents of Pink grapefruit, White Peach, Lily of the valley, Tambac Jasmine, Champagne Accord, gardenia , Bourbon Vaniila musk...

, Pink Sparkle POP

Showtime Sparkle and Pink Sparkle POP are variations of Showtime and Pink Sparkle. These variations were released shortly after their original predecessors'.