"You don't see so much of a woman having just one signature scent anymore," she said adding that she knows one woman who owns more than 100 fragrances.
While that figure is extreme...
— "She" is Lindsey Pilcher, who works at Sephora in St. Louis. Quoted in Homework makes sense in buying scents in the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
Bedroom Soap belongs to an entire “Bedroom” line of products made by an Australian company called Dynamo House. When I first spotted it, I couldn’t resist the Modigliani–inspired illustration on its box, and when I opened the box just enough to inhale the soap’s fragrance, I was sufficiently seduced (if you will) to bring it home with me.
Bedroom Soap is blended from coconut oil, palm oil, and sweet almond oil, and its long lasting, finely milled bar produces copious, creamy lather…
Esteban has launched six new fragrances:
Angelic Flower, Oriental Flower and Sonata Flower, all in Eau de Toilette concentration, make up the new Collection Les Floraux :
Angelic Flower ~ ” The impromptu mischievousness of the vibrant umbellates reveals a subtly powdery perfume under the drops of dew”.
Oriental Flower ~ “The bewitching elixir of white flowers with a disturbing, mysterious sensuality”…
I discovered it while walking in Paris. I passed a parfumerie where it was being sprayed through an open door. I stopped and bought it. I have been a devotee ever since.
— Annette Green, former president of the Fragrance Foundation, on Christian Dior Addict, in The sexiest scents for him and her in the Financial Post.
And so, when they discovered in their cellar, some boxes that contained about 100 old perfume bottles, some of which date back to the 1920s, they decided that it was only right to offer them to customers again. The catch is that you also have to purchase its Ultimate Bespoke Perfume Design service - with in-house perfumer Shelagh Foyle - at a cost of £2,500 to get one. Still, with five consultations over three months, an entirely unique blend, and 100ml of blended eau de parfum and five repeat orders, it's well worth it if you really want to send a cut-above message.
— Floris offers up a romantic gift idea. From Say it with a retro twist in the Financial Times.
I have always been struck by one passage about love in the critic and teacher John Bayley's memoir of his forty-year marriage to the novelist Iris Murdoch, Elegy for Iris. The two are on their honeymoon and people-watching. Bayley notes:
Iris seemed to be in a reverie, too. I took her hand and it pressed mine. What was she thinking? I had no idea… I knew very well there was no way to find out. But this realization reassured me deeply… Such ignorance, such solitude! They suddenly seemed the best part of love and marriage. We were together because we were comforted and reassured by the solitariness each saw and was aware of in the other.
This is, of course, not the sort of all-consuming passion one normally yearns for as a young person…
