Tocca will launch the Aqua Profumata trio this month. The new scents are aimed at a younger customer looking for a light fragrance, and were inspired by the south of Italy.
Amalfi ~ featuring notes of cucumber, mint, apple, jasmine, violet leaves, lily of the valley, violet and musk…
New at dillards: John Varvatos Artisan.
Deal at ronrobinson (apothia): get free shipping with coupon code HAPPYMOM, good through 5/7.
Today we’re helping Sheena. Sheena’s longtime signature perfume was Rochas Tocade, but her local perfume store in Kuala Lumpur stopped carrying it 5 years ago, and she’s having trouble finding a replacement (and yes, she knows she could buy it online). Sheena wants to find a perfume that “has a strong personality and possibly poetic”, but she also wants something she can buy locally at a reasonable price (no more than $100, and preferably much less). She also says that “Malaysia is obsessed with mainstream/ pop fragrances”, so she’s not after a “distinctive niche scent”; still, she’d like to find something that not absolutely everyone else is wearing. Here is what we know about Sheena:
Sheena’s in her mid-20s and works as a literature educator in a local university.
She’s also a performance poet and slam artist…
Diptyque has launched L’Eau de Tarocco, a fourth fragrance in the cologne series that debuted last year with L’Eau de L’Eau, L’Eau des Hesperides & L’Eau de Neroli.
A fruity Eau de Cologne that’s sweet yet vibrant and spicy.
One can imagine the camels carrying burlap sacks filled with heady spices and exotic flavors…
Miller Harris scents are widely available nowadays, but for the limited editions and other specialities, you need to visit one of the Miller Harris stores.
The flagship London store is on Bruton Street, Mayfair, next door but one to Berkeley Square (where the fictional Bertie Wooster lived with Jeeves).
The shop can be identified by its bright yellow awning, patterned with the trademark Miller Harris design. This awning has a secondary benefit — inside the shop, it feels as if the sun is beaming in, even on a dull, wet March afternoon.
The front of the shop is dedicated to fragrance, candles and bath & body products. There are urns, from which Lyn Harris’s selected single-note oils — Rose Absolute, Sage Dalmation and Mandarin Green — can be dispensed…