Canadian beauty brand Lise Watier has launched Folies Neiges, a new flanker to the line’s popular Neiges fragrance:
FOLIES NEIGES is this ardent, vibrant, free-as-air spirit that invites fantasies to take flight. Perfume of pleasure, perfume for every occasion, it graces the wildest moments…
But after tracking down the name of an ancestor inscribed on a childhood storybook, he found he was related to the perfume empire founded by John Grossmith in 1835. Now he is relaunching the company with the original scents, selling them through Harrods, Fortnum & Mason and Les Senteurs.
— From Revived: perfume range worn by Queen Victoria at the London Evening Standard.
Today we’re helping Gillian, who lives in the UK and is looking for three specific fragrances: a lemongrass and ginger scent, a spicy carnation, and a juicy apple that isn’t too sharp. She’d rather not spend more than £60 on any one fragrance. She lives near several department stores, and is willing to order samples online.
Gillian is in her late 20s, and describes her style as quirky. Gillian likes…
…vintage clothes (mainly greens and blues), outsider music, houmous, vintage prints, the smell of old telephones, my green Pashley bicycle, finding strange objects in charity shops and sewing and crafting…
Young consumers between the ages of 16 and 22 prefer fresh fragrances with watery, hesperide or fruity notes, according to an international marketing study carried out by German flavor and fragrance manufacturer Symrise between 2008 and 2009.
— From Symrise sniffs out young adult olfactory tastes at Cosmeticnews.
From Diptyque’s Holiday 2009 collection, the (gorgeous) Benjoin candle: “Its smokey note of benzoin gives off a mysterious yet warm and cozy aroma.” The design is inspired by