Ed Hardy will launch the Hearts & Daggers duo in early 2010:
Ed Hardy Hearts & Daggers for Women (shown above left) features blood orange, violet leaf, apple, mango, apple blossoms, pink jasmine, cashmere musk, amber, benzoin and blond wood…
Les Nereides ~ shopping for perfume in London
Perfumistas are aware of Les Néréides as the house that gives us Imperial Opoponax and Patchouli Antique, among other niche favourites.
In fact, Les Néréides is actually a jewellery company, specialising in cute and unusual costume pieces. It’s quirky stuff — for example, most of their earrings are paired rather than identical — a parrot in one ear and a gilded cage in the other, for example. I doubt if any woman could walk past the window of the Covent Garden shop and not stop and squeal with delight…
A hint of vanilla
The aroma of an old book is familiar to every user of a traditional library. A combination of grassy notes with a tang of acids and a hint of vanilla over an underlying mustiness, this unmistakable smell is as much part of the book as its contents.
— Quoted in Scientists nose out clue to preserving books: their smell at the Guardian.
Lazy Friday poll ~ open thread, mid-November
The usual open thread routine: talk about anything you like — what perfume you’re wearing today, anything wonderful you tested lately, the last scrubber you encountered, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer.
Note: image is object #1: poppy by asja at flickr; some rights reserved.
Online fragrance shopping
Deal at ormondejayne: take 10% off with coupon code NOEL, good 11/19 only.
New at senteursdailleurs (Brussels): L'Artisan Al Oudh, Profumum Vanitas.
Deal at shopmiomia: take 20% off with coupon code MIOMIA20, good through 11/15.