Model Tyson Ballou for the new Biotherm Force Homme.
Givenchy Play For Her ~ new perfume
Givenchy will launch Play For Her in August. The new feminine counterpart to 2008’s Givenchy Play For Him fragrance is fronted by Justin Timberlake and model Noot Sear…
Scented eyeglasses
French eyewear brand Les Opticiens ATOL have launched a collection in collaboration with Adriana Karembeu, AK Senteurs, with scented eyeglass arms. There are four fragrances: Coquette (red, with floral notes), Ile aux baisers (mango and citrus), Chocolat (a chocolate gourmand) and Adriana (pink, spicy and sweet). (via cosmeticsinternational)
Rare but stinky
Prepare to hold your nose - Bella's about to bloom again.
And if you don't like the whiff of rotting flesh, keep a good distance from UNC Charlotte's greenhouse on the morning that its rare but stinky titan arum, nicknamed "the corpse plant," first opens in full, spectacular bloom.
— Yet another corpse flower is about to bloom, this one at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Read more at What's all the stink about? at the Charlotte Observer, or track the bloom's progress (right now they say it's due between 6/24 and 7/1) at the UNC Botanical Gardens website.
Out of the Bottle: A Welcome, with Meyer Lemons and Elderflower Cordial
Welcome to Out of the Bottle: The Scented World! Once a month, I’ll be writing about fragrant food and plants, interviewing perfumers, artists, scientists, and other people who use scent in their work, and reporting on exhibitions and lectures related to scent. I’m currently in the process of gathering topic ideas and contacting prospective interviewees, so if you think there is something deliciously smelly I should go eat, a person I’ve just got to talk to, or you’re wondering how those magazine people out in Brooklyn who let an artist bomb their offices with oak moss are doing (and I intend to find out), please make suggestions in the comments. You can also contact me by email: alyssa at nstperfume dot com.
Four years ago, a few heady months after I discovered Now Smell This, I wrote a grateful fan letter to Robin in which I confessed I’d developed a slight (ahem) case of fragrance addiction. I also tried, with my new perfume vocabulary, to describe the scent of the Meyer lemons I had just harvested from the tiny tree in my backyard.1 So I thought we’d begin with a dish featuring those lemons — pan fried scallops with Meyer lemon glaze — accompanied by a champagne cocktail made with gorgeously fragrant elderflower cordial.2 Please put on your garden hats and white linen Gatsby trousers now…