Same old open thread: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last perfume that made you laugh, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: image is j'préfère les coquelicots... [cropped] by Biscarotte at flickr; some rights reserved.
There’s no fruity vanilla bull---t. I’m sorry, but you know what I mean? A lot of celebrity fragrances are fruit, vanilla, and I wanted something for grown-up girls.
— Dita Von Teese tells Women's Wear Daily all about her new fragrance, which will launch in Australia in the fall and reach the US in 2012.
Molton Brown will launch Navigations Through Scent, a new quintet of unisex fragrances, in September. The fragrances were developed by perfumer Jennifer Jambon and inspired by countries along the spice route…
Verdant is one of the three initial fragrance releases in the new Pentachords series from indie niche line Tauer Perfumes. If you remember, each of the Pentachords is to feature 5 synthetic molecules, no more, no less, no naturals. Tauer called the series a bit of a “mind game”, and I suppose limiting yourself in advance to a set number of materials is somewhat arbitrary, but I’ve no quarrel with it: whatever keeps the perfumer amused and challenged is fine with me; and surely the whole point of indie niche is that you can do what you want, right? As Tauer noted…
It’s a privilege to be smaller. I can do things Chanel can’t.1
Indeed.
Verdant opens citrusy and green and bright, and then quickly turns dark and dirty…