Kenzo celebrates the coming of spring with a new contest:
This year, the Kenzo poppy sets off on a new journey, poetic and digital. It blossoms on the Internet and turns into a virtual field. Photograph it and sow it in this FLOWERBYYOU field.
Translation: take a picture of a poppy, and upload it to the flowerbyyou website…
Pfffft! comes the spray onto the wrist, as she takes my hand, pulls me along a studio floor and pirouettes the pair of us through a cloud of a fragrance called 'M'. Naturally, it's her own. 'M' is a light, floral/incense affair with a toasted marshmallow 'top-note' personally requested by Carey because it reminds her of being young. Just about the most successful female recording artist the world has known, aged 37, believes she is 'eternally 12'.
— Mariah Carey talks to The Telegraph in Mariah Carey: Come in and smell the perfume, which really isn't much about perfume…
Two more summer limited edition scents…
From Elizabeth Arden, a summer version of last year's Mediterranean fragrance. Mediterranean Breeze is “the scent of a warm breeze infused with wild blossoms and the gentle spray of the ocean”, and comes in 50 ($47.50) or 100 ml ($57.50) Eau de Parfum spray. Available at dillards…
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
That's In a Station of the Metro by American poet Ezra Pound, and over the next two weeks, the Memory & Desire blog will be exploring what various perfumers might come up with using the poem as “a possible starting point for a fantasy blend in which the cost of materials and production is unimportant and the only limitation is imagination”.
Things kick off today with perfumer Mandy Aftel…
The rabbit shown at right is hidden somewhere on the Tauer Perfumes website.
Be one of the first 50 or so people to find it, and you'll win a free sample of Tauer's latest fragrance, Incense rosé. When all of the samples are spoken for, Andy Tauer will post a note on his blog, so check there before you go off rabbit-hunting.
Update: they're all gone!