Cabinet Magazine, “an award-winning quarterly magazine of art and culture”, is hosting a smell installation, “Recent addition to the permanent collection”, at their space at 300 Nevins Street in Brooklyn:
Cabinet is pleased to announce the opening of Recent addition to the permanent collection, an invisible modification of the Cabinet event space by Nadia Wagner that invokes change, decay, and prestige via the use of a signature of the scent of oak moss…
Penhaligon’s has launched the Penhaligon’s Anthology, a collection of fragrances from their archives reworked by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour. Four fragrances, Extract of Limes, Eau de Verveine, Gardenia and Night Scented Stock make up the first group; eight more fragrances are expected to join the collection over the next two years.
Extract of Limes (shown above left) ~ “Originally created in 1963…”
Browns is a slightly difficult enterprise to describe. It’s kind of a stiff-upper-lip British version of Colette in Paris; self-consciously serious about high-end fashion — clothes, hats, shoes, bags, fragrance. Browns carries lots of established names as well as hot-stuff newbies, but it offers only selected items from those designers, and changes direction fairly often. It’s the place where future creative superstars get discovered.
Browns’ principal base is in South Molton Street, off Oxford Street, but even here you’re thrown into artful confusion. There’s a main store, which consists of several terraced buildings linked together in a labyrinth of passageways. Across from here, there’s a shop called ‘Browns Focus’, which offers cutting edge clothes ‘for the woman who likes to dress with attitude’. Further down South Molton Street, there’s ‘Browns Labels for Less’, which is essentially the outlet store. Elsewhere in London, there’s Browns Bride and Browns Shoes.
Browns is a useful source of niche fragrance…
Elizabeth Arden will launch 5th Avenue Style this fall. The new fruity floriental fragrance for women is a flanker to 1996’s 5th Avenue, and follows 2005’s After Five 5th Avenue.
5th Avenue Style was developed by perfumer Yann Vasnier; the notes include raspberry, tagette, bergamot, pink pepper, peony, peach, plum…
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