Le Labo has launched Benjoin 19, the new city-exclusive fragrance for Moscow. The scent was inspired by the moment in Tolstoy’s novel when Anna Karenina first saw Count Vronsky at the railway station in Moscow…
Terry de Gunzburg Fruit Defendu & Bleu Paradis ~ new fragrances
Terry de Gunzburg of By Terry will launch two new fragrances next year, Fruit Défendu and Bleu Paradis. Both scents were developed by perfumer Michel Almairac and feature a rose note…
Miller Harris Perfumer’s Library ~ new fragrances
British niche line Miller Harris has launched The Perfumer’s Library, a new collection of five fragrances: Le Jasmin, Tuberosa, Veti Vert, La Feuille and Verger…
Cheese and smelly body parts
It's no surprise that sometimes cheese odours and body odours are similar. But when we started working together we were surprised by how not only do cheese and smelly body parts like feet share similar odour molecules but also have similar microbial populations.
— Just in case you were wondering what scent artist Sissel Tolaas has been up to lately, she's been making cheese from bacteria taken from the persons of artist Olafur Eliasson, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and chef Michael Pollan. Read more, if you can stomach it, at Olafur Eliasson's tears used to make human cheese at De Zeen. You might also remember that she did the same thing with David Beckham's sneakers.
L’Occitane Passionate Jasmine, Subtle Violet and Fleur d’Or & Acacia shea hand creams ~ scented body product review
I am a little surprised to see we’ve never reviewed one of L’Occitane’s shea butter hand creams, but hey, most of you are probably familiar with the product — according to L’Occitane, they sell one every three seconds. It’s a thick hand cream in a metal tube, sometimes with colorful decorations, sometimes without. The formula is 20% shea butter,1 but it sinks in nicely and doesn’t leave hands greasy. And it works, or at least, I find that it works quickly when my hands are parched in the winter.2 The metal tubes seem to hold up pretty well, which is more than I can say for some metal tube hand creams, which split along the sides before you’ve finished the product.3
Happily for perfumistas, L’Occitane regularly introduces new limited edition fragrances — actually, I’m not sure I’ve ever tried the “regular”, non-scented version, but I often have one of the 30 ml travel tubes, in one scent or another, tucked in my purse…