British beauty brand Illamasqua has launched Freak Scarab, a new unisex fragrance. Freak Scarab is a flanker to 2011’s Freak…
Cartier Eau de Cartier Zeste de Soleil ~ new fragrance
Cartier has launched Eau de Cartier Zeste de Soleil, a new flanker to 2001’s Eau de Cartier. Zeste de Soleil follows recent flankers Eau de Cartier Essence de Bois and Eau de Cartier Goutte de Rose…
Street of Dreams
The director's cut (the director being Martin Scorsese) of Street of Dreams, the new advert for Dolce & Gabbana The One and The One For Men, starring Scarlett Johansson and Matthew McConaughey.
Scent & Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume by Barbara Herman ~ perfume books
Once or twice a year, someone will ask why I’m so fascinated with perfume — or, more bluntly, why I’m willing to pay more than $100 for a bottle. I have an answer ready: It’s a piece of art that you get to carry with you all day instead of leaving on/above the mantle.
It’s a half-truth. I also wear perfume when I can’t pile on enough cashmere, or black eyeliner, or gin flasks to keep up with my mood. That’s when I reach for Bottega Veneta, or Dior Poison, or Jean Patou Joy. Because, as Yesterday’s Perfume blogger Barbara Herman so aptly states in her book Scent & Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, “Perfume’s power is that it has one foot in the elevated world of language, and one foot in the primal, emotional, visceral, and dreamlike.” They say what I really want to say, in a cut-to-the-chase, non-HR-involving language…
Parfums M Micallef Mon Parfum Cristal ~ new perfume
French niche line Parfums M Micallef has launched Mon Parfum Cristal, a new fragrance for women. Mon Parfum Cristal is a flanker to 2009’s Mon Parfum…