Perfumeloft

Different people can have varying perceptions of the same scents and odors, for instance perceiving the same perfume as “fruity” or “musky.” Studies have suggested that the ways in which the same odors are mapped in the brain of different individuals are highly flexible, particularly compared to visual stimuli, which are typically represented similarly. —  …

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It’s Tuesday and Johnny Appleseed Day. Birthdays: T. S. Eliot, Olivia Newton-John, Serena Williams. What fragrance are you wearing? According to her obit at The New York Times, Diana Vreeland usually “breakfasted on tea and oatmeal” (and Harper’s Bazaar says she “ate the same lunch every day: a whole-wheat peanut-butter-and-marmalade sandwich, washed down with scotch”). …

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Victoria Beckham will launch three unisex fragrances, Portofino ’97, San Ysidro Drive and Suite 302. Each scent in the new trio was inspired by an important moment in her life, and developed by perfumer Jérôme Epinette… Read the rest of this article »

Victoria’s Secret has launched Bombshell Tour, featuring four limited edition flankers to 2010’s Bombshell fragrance for women: Bombshell Bogotá, Bombshell Lagos, Bombshell London and Bombshell Tokyo… Read the rest of this article »

Jean Paul Gaultier did up Classique and Le Male in red puffer vests last year; this year it’s fur-trimmed silver: “This dazzling collector’s edition of Classique is reimagined in an iridescent bottle containing the original Classique perfume under a faux fur coat.” The women’s is currently on markdown at Macy’s ($110 for 100 ml), don’t …

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In more recent years, before starting to develop my own scents, I played around with lots of different perfumes, never quite finding my signature one. But what is interesting is that when I investigated fragrances that I have been drawn to over the years, they have all been Jerome creations. It was why I was …

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It’s Wednesday and the swapmeet is still open for business! Also, National Chocolate Milk Day and World Tourism Day. What fragrance are you wearing? Diana Vreeland said “Fashion must be the most intoxicating release from the banality of the world”, to which I would answer that Arielle Shoshana Saturday is doing about the same for …

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Italian house Costume National will launch Paperplane, a new fragrance… Read the rest of this article »

Karlie Kloss for Carolina Herrera Good Girl Blush.

From Guerlain, the fifth (at least I think it’s the fifth?) model from Guerlain honoring the 170th birthday of the bee bottle (see Maison Matisse Couleur Bonheur, Bouquet de la Mariée Murano edition, Reve d’Amour Nadine Kanso edition, Bee Garden): Le Bouquet de la Cour, with the bottle done up by Parisian jewelers Chaumet. Featuring …

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