Happy International Day for Tolerance!
We’re celebrating the same way we celebrate most weekends: with an open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last perfume you wanted for the bottle but not the juice (or vice versa), whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
How do I decide which perfume I’ll be reviewing for any given week? Sometimes my choice is inspired by the weather, by my mood, or by the timeliness of a new release. On the other hand, chance sometimes plays a role: last Sunday morning, I was looking over a handful of sample vials, trying to make a selection, when George Gershwin’s An American in Paris came on the radio. My eye fell on one of the samples in front of me: Gershwin, then!
Maria Candida Gentile is an Italian perfumer who trained in Grasse; her fragrances are all evocatively named and seem to contain an unusually high percentage of natural ingredients…
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 Comme des Garçons, the Perfume Architecture series: “Three limited edition perfumes for 2013 exploring new dimensional concepts around three Comme des Garçons perfume classics – Wonderwood, Man 2 and Amazingreen.” Due to launch this week at Dover Street Market in London…
As a bit of a unicorn chaser, some beauty: designer and book maker Irma Boom shows off the book — all embossed images and text, no ink — she made for Chanel No. 5 and the No. 5 Culture Chanel exhibition.
You can read more about the book at Wired. It will go on sale at Amazon next year.
Victoria’s Secret has launched Bombshell Diamonds, a new* fresh floral fragrance for women. Bombshell Diamonds is a flanker to 2010′s Bombshell perfume, and follows previous Bombshell flankers Bombshell Summer, Bombshell Temptation, Bombshell Seduction, Bombshell in Love, Bombshell The Summer Edition, Bombshell Italian Iris and Bombshell Forever…