A CITY centre hotel was evacuated today after a designer perfume bottle, shaped like a bundle of TNT, was mistaken for a bomb. Staff at the Hilton Hotel in Tower Street called police at 9.20am after the ‘suspicious package’ was found in the ladies toilets.
— Read more at "Dynamite" perfume bottle causes bomb scare at York hotel at the UK's York Press.
Italian niche line Acqua di Parma has launched Acqua Nobile Iris and Acqua Nobile Magnolia, new Eau de Toilette versions of 2006’s Iris Nobile and 2009’s Magnolia Nobile respectively (and see also: Acqua Nobile Gelsomino)…
Jil Sander will launch Sun Day, new limited edition summer flankers to 1989′s Jil Sander Sun and 2002’s Jil Sander Sun Men…
I dream so much and live so little that I’m sometimes only three years old. But the next day I’m three hundred, if the dream has been somber. Isn’t it the same with you? Doesn’t it occasionally seem to you as if you’re starting out on life without even knowing what it is, while at other times you feel weighted down by thousands of centuries of which you have but a dim and painful memory? Where do we come from, and where are we going? Anything’s possible because everything’s unknown.
— George Sand to Gustave Flaubert, Sept. 28, 18661
I “met” George Sand when I was twelve years old. In the county library, I noticed a book called Infamous Woman (I’ve always had a soft spot for infamy); I read the book, a biography of Sand, and became infatuated with her. My infatuation has lasted decades and has morphed from fascination with Sand’s personal life to deep appreciation of her ideas and writing.
Sand was a writer of amazing stamina, producing a huge body of work: 70 novels and novellas, two dozen plays, essays galore, decades of daily diary entries, and 25 volumes of correspondence (each volume around 1,000 pages!)2 I’ve enjoyed many of her novels, but my favorite Sand works are autobiographical…
Last year, Guerlain launched L’Heure De Nuit, a new flanker to 1912’s L’Heure Bleue…