Indie line Smell Bent has launched Leisure Cruise, a collection of new limited edition fragrances:
From the sunny French Riviera to luscious Thailand, the S.S. Smell Bent is making stops at fragrant ports of call…
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Halle Berry Halle Pure Orchid ~ fragrance review
Halle Berry’s debut fragrance, Halle by Halle Berry, was something of a love-it-or-hate-it among perfumistas, but it did well enough on the mass market shelves.1 Not surprisingly, Coty has the first flanker out in short order: Halle Pure Orchid. From the looks of things, they just took all the original publicity shots and tinted everything, including the sand and the sky, a nice pale-ish purple.
The scent follows about the same trajectory. Remember how the somewhat-difficult gourmand Covet (Sarah Jessica Parker) turned into the crowd-pleasing purple floralated flanker Covet Pure Bloom? That’s about what has happened here…
Aramis Cool Blend ~ new fragrance
Aramis has launched Aramis Cool Blend, a new limited edition fresh chypre for men. The new fragrance aims to bring the “next generation” into the Aramis fold…
It was the smell of him driving me to school
And when I used it for the first time, in my hotel room, I was almost knocked over by what I can only describe as a physical memory of my father. It was the smell of him driving me to school, and of him bending over to pull tight and tie the cord in the hood of my snow jacket, and of him fixing himself a drink in the pantry while he and my mother were waiting for dinner guests to arrive.
— David Owen writes about rediscovering his father's Old Spice in "The Dime Store Floor" (subtitled What did childhood smell like?) in this week's New Yorker. The article is not available online unless you're a subscriber, but you can access a short audio slideshow on their website (and Owen does discuss the Old Spice near the end). Many thanks to Jessica for the tip!