There’re companies that are saying, “Well, couldn’t there be a little area at the end where you can show the packaging?”
— Chandler Burr talks about upcoming Art of Scent exhibit at the the Museum of Arts and Design's new Center of Olfactory Art, in Scent of a Museum at the New York Times.
Kiehl’s (Since 1851) Original Musk Blend No. 1 has been around a long time if you believe Kiehl’s PR: “Our original musk oil is believed to have been created in the 1920s at the ‘Kiehl Apothecary.’ Discovered there in a vat labeled ‘Love Oil’ in the late 50s, Kiehl’s signature scent was reintroduced to our patrons in 1963.” I recently sniffed Original Musk for the first time, and it reminds me of many higher priced perfumes: inside Original Musk there’s a pinch of Hermès Eau d’ Hermès with its grainy, leather-cumin accord, a hint of Serge Lutens Muscs Koublaï Khan (“tough” musk with flowers), and a ghostly bit of, believe it or not, Chanel No. 5’s floral aldehydes.
Original Musk is, of course, a synthetic musk fragrance; it has “body” but it’s still a light version of musk — not heavy in the least. Kiehl’s lists Original Musk’s fragrance notes as bergamot nectar, orange blossom, lily, rose, ylang-ylang, neroli, tonka bean, white patchouli and musk.
There are no distinct stages of development in Original Musk…
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A "behind the scenes" for the Lacoste L.12.12 commercial. If it were up to me (and it never is), I would have given over the whole 2 minutes to the origami artist folding the shirt.
I can make a cocktail that will take you back 30 years. If you tell me what you had as a child, I can take you there in one second — take you back to when your mommy tucked you in and gave you a hot chocolate. The same exact scent.
— Mixologist Alex Ott, quoted in The Sorcerer of Shaken and Stirred at the New York Times.