Indie brand Soivohle’ has launched five new fragrances: A Rose For Beacon Free, Marron Caramel, Figgy Plum, Lavande Legato and Orris Ochre…
Brad!, part the second
Ok, so there's a part two. And maybe more? But here is Brad again, saying the same things as before — the world turns and we turn with it! — with new visuals. For Chanel No. 5, in case you haven't been paying attention.
Online fragrance shopping
New at aedes: Serge Lutens Santal Majuscule, Amouage Interlude.
Deal at beautyhabit: with any purchase of $85 or more, get a Fragonard solid perfume + a 7.5 ml Aroma Associates shower gel, using coupon code OCTOBERTREAT, good through 10/26 or while supplies last.
New at belk: Philosophy Living Grace.
New at luckyscent: Vero Profumo Mito, A Lab On Fire Liquid Night.
New at macys: Dior refillable purse sprays.
New at neimanmarcus: Guerlain Shanghai.
New at nordstrom: Bvlgari Mon Jasmin Noir L'Elixir.
Floating Gold: A Natural (& Unnatural) History of Ambergris ~ book review
Who would think, then, that such fine ladies and gentlemen should regale themselves with an essence found in the inglorious bowels of a sick whale! Yet so it is. — Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Over the years, perfumers have had some wonderfully repugnant substances in their arsenal. Some, like jasmine and oakmoss, look picturesque in nature but can waltz into a perfume with manure or pond scum caked on their boots. Others have unseemly origins, like oudh produced by fungus-infected trees and various musks harvested from animals’ rear ends. Ambergris is a bit of both. It is produced in the bowels of just one percent of sperm whales from indigestible squid parts and feces, and expelled (sometimes fatally1) to the ocean’s surface, where it ideally ages for a few years before washing ashore. It almost always smells a bit like barnyard. Like oakmoss and animal musk, it seems to belong to a past age of perfumery. But ambergris has a mystery all its own, a treasure from the sea that can bring its finder a small fortune, an olfactory enigma that is difficult to describe and impossible to create in a lab.2
Molecular biologist Christopher Kemp first heard of ambergris in 2008 when a huge block of ambergris was thought to have washed up in New Zealand, where he was living at the time…
All you need is red. Sometimes.
Christina Aguilera for her new Red Sin fragrance.