New at bloomingdales: Bvlgari Aqva Amara.
New at first-in-fragrance: Yosh Konig.
New at twistedlily: Arquiste line.
Make love not war
The latest promo from Axe, for their new fragrance, Axe Peace. You can read more about the campaign at Axe, Switching Gears, Strikes a More Earnest Tone at the New York Times.
Simply fewer smells
One reason is that odor molecules move much more slowly as the air temperature drops, said Pamela Dalton, an olfactory scientist at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia. That means that there are simply fewer smells to smell on a cold, crisp day than there are on a hot and humid one.
— Read more at Why Cold Air Smells Different at Discovery.
Cartier Eau de Cartier Zeste de Soleil, with an aside on Baiser Vole Essence de Parfum ~ fragrance review
Hey, who doesn’t need a little zeste de soleil right about now? (If it’s warm where you are, no bragging please!) Zeste de Soleil is the latest flanker to Cartier’s Eau de Cartier, a fragrance I’ve always liked but never adored quite enough to buy a bottle. It joins Eau de Cartier Essence d’Orange (which was not as wonderful as I hoped), Eau de Cartier Essence de Bois (a great pencil-shavings scent darkened with a drop of oud) and Eau de Cartier Goutte de Rose (which I have not smelled — do comment if you have).
Zeste de Soleil is apparently meant to be the exotic-slash-tropical entry in the series; it adds passion fruit to the original mix of yuzu and mint. The top notes are the perfect antidote to the grey, dreary, rainy weather we’re having here lately: an energetic burst of what smells like flash-frozen grapefruit peel…
More upcoming perfume books for 2014
Three more upcoming perfume books for 2014: The Collector of Dying Breaths by MJ Rose, Rare Perfumes / Parfums Rare by Sabine Chabbert & Laurence Férat, and Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell by Jonathan Reinarz.
The Collector of Dying Breaths
A novel of suspense from MJ Rose, author of The Book of Lost Fragrances…