New at escentual (UK): Vera Wang Lovestruck.
New at selfridges (UK): Estee Lauder Sensuous Nude, Vera Wang Lovestruck.
Pucci Miss Pucci Intense ~ new fragrance
Pucci will launch Miss Pucci Intense in August. The new version of last year’s Miss Pucci is reportedly more sophisticated and elegant, and is intended for evening wear…
Christian Dior Addict to Life ~ new perfume
Christian Dior has launched Addict to Life, a new fresh floral fragrance for women. Addict to Life is a flanker to 2002’s Addict, and is fronted by model Karlie Kloss…
High meat and old squeegees
One particularly striking exception remains. It’s a mystery, the stretch of Broome Street between Allen and Eldridge—a quiet little block that smells like high meat and old squeegees. It gets bad in the spring and worse in the summer, when the smell of decay is overpowering.
— New York magazine investigates The Smelliest Block in New York.
By Kilian Incense Oud ~ fragrance review
A long time ago, a friend who was a painter gave me a book. I can’t tell you now what the book was about, but I remember the rich scent of his work soaked in its pages. For days, I buried my nose in the book to smell the turpentine, oil paint, and raw wood of his studio. The smell brought back the giant landscape he was working on while a cat padded over the cement floor to jump into my lap as I talked and nursed a glass of red wine. This is what I think of when I smell By Kilian Incense Oud Eau de Parfum.
Incense Oud, the third in By Kilian’s Arabian Nights series, was developed by perfumer Sidonie Lancesseur and released earlier this year. By Kilian’s website lists among its notes incense, oud, cardamom, rose, and labdanum. Probably, like many fragrances, it has something citrusy and fleeting for top notes, but I don’t smell it. And probably there’s something more complex in its body, but I don’t smell that, either.
What I do smell is a surprisingly sinuous — although definitely present — incense sweetened with sandalwood…