Victoria’s Secret has launched Bombshell Escape, a new tropical floral flanker to 2010’s Bombshell fragrance for women… Read the rest of this article »
For Guerlain Florabloom: perfumer Thierry Wasser on tuberose enfleurage, followed by (below the jump) grower Emmanuelle Gastadi in the tuberose fields in Grasse. Read the rest of this article »
A springtime lemming courtesy of Kevin: Trudon’s Versailles candle. “A quintessential accord representing French gardens in spring, both very floral and refreshing. The Versailles Collection, already iconic with its frozen azure-blue vessel and its both highly floral and refreshing fragrance, captures an atmosphere as refined as it is whimsical: a garden created from scratch to …
Niche means a house for a little dog, meaning a house that’s so small it cannot grow. And in that word ‘niche’, which comes from marketing people who aren’t the most inventive by essence, there was a little bit of contempt. It was like, ‘Oh, that’s niche; it’s not going to become so big.’ And …
It’s Hump Day, plus the International Day of Happiness. (Also, the UN French Language Day and Fred McFeely Rogers‘ birthday.) What fragrance are you wearing? I’m copying madtowngirl’s Tuesday choice, in Jour d’Hermès. Reminder: on 3/22, it’s spring… Read the rest of this article »
