Rampaging floral perfumes and loud, honking, fruity scents are to be banned; traditional eau de colognes will rule: those barbershop constructs of bergamot, yuzu, lemon and orange, with neroli, pinches of vetiver and woodsy whiffs to trick the soaring Fahrenheit into shady glens and lazy breezes, then vanish into olfactory mirage.
— From Samurai Shopper | Summer’s Common Scents at The New York Times. Many thanks to Ruth for the link!
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
Another day, another limited edition from Jean Paul Gaultier. This one is the Classique Charm Edition 2010…
Deal at bluemercury: spend $100 on Acqua di Parma, get a free 20 ml Bergamotto di Calabria Body Cream with coupon code ORANGE, good while supplies last.
Deal at usa.loccitane: get free shipping on orders of $25 or more, no coupon code needed, expiration date unknown.
Country singer Faith Hill has launched her second perfume for women (the first was Faith Hill by Faith Hill), Faith Hill True:
Inspired by casual sensuality and spirited femininity…
Due to the charms of the owner of the Perfume House, for a while it seemed every perfume lover in Portland had a bottle of Caron Parfum Sacré on her dresser. In the 1990s, if you were lucky enough to be at the store when the owner was there, he might pull you into a tiny side room and ask you to sit on one of the two ice cream parlor-style chairs against the wall. Then, he would present Parfum Sacré, “the greatest memory perfume” and “one of the top 10 fragrances in the world”.
When I heard the story more than a decade ago, I remember the owner, grey suited and speaking with a Europe-tinged accent, gesticulating fervently. Backed by a glass cabinet full of Annick Goutal bottles, he talked about Parfum Sacré’s launch in Portland. At the end of the story he said, “I told them, ‘Wait’,” here he touched his wristwatch, “In 37 minutes—” (or was it 67 or maybe an hour and 47?) “—they will be back. Thirty-seven minutes later so many of them came back to buy the fragrance the police had to close the streets!”
Did the Portland police really turn out to control traffic snarls caused by manic perfume buyers? Who cares? I love a good story told with passion…