It’s Tuesday, plus Repeal Day and World Soil Day. Happy 88th birthday to Calvin Trillin! What fragrance are you wearing? It’s a travel day for me: I’m heading to Texas to visit friends. Posting will be even less consistent than usual than usual this week, and I may be slow to reply to emails and …
Niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas has launched Café Tabac, a new fragrance…. Read the rest of this article »
Not really a lemming for me personally, but if you’re a fan of Cartier La Panthère, the hair mist is now in the fragrance’s new packaging design (if you loved the old — and I loved it so much I bought the Eau de Parfum unsniffed — you might want to purchase your preferred concentration …
It’s another Monday, plus National Cookie Day. Birthdays: Rainer Maria Rilke, Jeff Bridges, Jay-Z. What fragrance are you wearing? I’m going to be traveling most of this week and don’t expect to accrue many community project points, so I’m banking one in advance today with Bvlgari Omnia, made by Spanish perfumer Alberto Morillas. Reminder: on …
That’s also why he’s not a fan of consumer testing. “It’s a tool, but it’s about how you use the results,” he says. “Some clients use the consumer testing to please everybody and they need to check all the boxes. And that’s where making a fragrance becomes making a soup. I’m always more in the …
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The holiday video from Hermès.
It’s the first weekend in December, plus Saturday is National Fritters Day, the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery and Britney Spears’ birthday. Sunday is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. We’re marking everything with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, any plans …
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Clinique has launched Happy in Paradise, a new limited edition flanker to 1997’s Clinique Happy… Read the rest of this article »
Italian niche line Profumum has launched Gioiosa (Joyful), a new fragrance… Read the rest of this article »
From Glasshouse, a bar soap trio: “Give a little luxury this holiday season with our beautifully fragranced French triple-milled body bars…all wrapped up in festive gift box with joyful illustrations by Michelle Pereira”. Three 95g bars (Lost in Amalfi / Sea Mist, Midnight in Milan / Saffron & Rose, A Tahaa Affair / Vanilla Caramel) …
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