It’s never been done before; Yann literally recreated the smell of my armpit.
— Performance artist Martynka Wawrzyniak tells the New York Times about her new exhibit, Smell Me, for which perfumer Yann Vasnier recreated various bodily smells. Read more at Get A Whiff Of This Girl.
Roberto Cavalli will launch Just Cavalli, a new creamy floral fragrance for women (not to be confused with the old Just Cavalli scent for women). Just Cavalli is fronted by model Georgia May Jagger, and will debut next February…
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.
From Bond no. 9, the Swarovski edition of New York Musk. $1000 at Saks Fifth Avenue…
Created by a leading French perfumier, the scent is meant to be the olfactory embodiment of Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the ruthless dictator of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov.
— The fragrance, Mystérieusе, was created by perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour. Read more at Can the daughter of a dictator come up smelling of roses? at the Independent, and then check out the discussion at Bois de Jasmin. (hat tip to Donna!) Update: and here's another discussion at The Non-Blonde.
The Institute for Art and Olfaction, a new organization devoted to the art and science of perfumery, is scheduled to open in Los Angeles in March 2013:
Founder Saskia Wilson-Brown has partnered with programming director Kóan Jeff Baysa, creative director Micah Hahn, and an advisory board of thirteen experts in perfumery and public art to launch The Institute for Art and Olfaction (IAO). Devoted to multi-arts experimentation…