Travel should broaden the mind but more often dilates the nostrils, depending on the destination. You don’t have to possess the prominent nose of Cyrano de Bergerac to catch a whiff of the Guinness factory in Dublin, nor do you require a GPS to let you know that you have reached Faridabad, a sprawling industrial city north of New Delhi.
— From What’s That Smell? at WorldHum, with thanks to Nancy for the link!
Korres, the natural skincare company founded in Greece, opened its first Manhattan boutique in 2007. This SoHo storefront now also hosts the first New York location of Studio BeautyMix, a multi-brand shopping destination that originated at Fred Segal in Los Angeles. In a retailing philosophy that has influenced beauty-oriented chain stores from SpaceNK to Blue Mercury, Studio BeautyMix stocks its shelves with an appealing variety of cosmetics, haircare, and fragrance from smaller or hard-to-find brands.
In this location, you can pick and choose anything from Amea customized skincare regimens to Marvis toothpastes…
A titan arum (aka corpse flower) at the Milwaukee Public Museum is expected to bloom the week of January 17:
When the museum’s other corpse flower bloomed in 2008, thousands of sinus-challenged visitors stopped in for a whiff and a gag. That belch-producing bulb teased audiences…
Angel was a huge success for Thierry Mugler. It continued to sell long after the fashion line fell out of favor, and even after the fashion line disappeared altogether in 2003. So it’s no surprise that the flankers have been many. Some of them did quite well on their own (Angel Innocent was so popular it ended up with its own line of flankers) and many perfumistas loved the Garden of Stars series, especially the Rose Angel.
In 2007, Thierry Mugler released Angel La Part des Anges. Perfumer Françoise Caron had reworked the original Angel juice, adding dried fruits in the opening and amber in the base. Then they’d put it through an aging process devised in collaboration with cognac firm Rémy Martin, whereby it was aged in cherrywood casks for a period of weeks (some sources said 12, others 23). They sold it in Parfum, in a Swarovski studded bottle, at $220 for 10 ml.
I smelled it at Bloomingdales that year, and was quite taken…
Bergamotto di Calabria will be the next release from Acqua di Parma’s Blue Mediterraneo range:
Unleashes all the sun-splashed beauty [of] the southern Mediterranean coast…