This Month's Beauty Obsessions

LIPS WITH TASTE
While I generally steer clear of "gourmande" makeup — that which smells of dessert — I was taken with the subtle fig-vanilla scent of Estee Lauder's reinvented Signature Lipstick. "We tested 150 scents with 500 women globally," says Tara Cohen, from the product-development team. "Americans loved the sweet vanilla, while Asians preferred the fruity fig. When we blended the two, we won over Europeans."