Happy Year of the Horse!
We’re celebrating with five questions: four entirely unrelated + one that is vaguely related. As always, answer as few or as many as you like.
1. Name a smell (not a perfume, just a smell) that everyone else loves, but you hate.
2. Name a perfume everyone else hates — or that just generally isn’t beloved by perfumistas — but you love.
3. Your most recent scrubber…
By request, we’ll be holding our first splitmeet next Saturday — here are the rules so everyone can plan in advance.
Don’t know what a bottle split is, or you know but you’ve never tried it? See here.
Please note that the intention of the splitmeet is to split newly purchased bottles of perfume, not to sell decants of fragrances already in your collection! Anyone can join a split, but only people with current, active reader accounts may host splits…
Spanish fashion brand Mango has launched Lady Rebel Diamond Edition, a new perfume for women who know what they want and know how to get it. Lady Rebel Diamond Edition is a flanker to 2009′s Lady Rebel, and a follow-up to 2011’s Lady Rebel Rock Deluxe and 2013’s Lady Rebel Dance Queen…
Taking a cue from the designer perfume line’s Déliria fragrance, which features notes of toffee and apple, the first course of Nova Scotia Salmon incorporates citrus-cured apple and grain mustard. The second course includes guests’ choice of Atlantic Black Cod, served with carrots and roasted garlic fumet, or the Omaha Beef Tenderloin with smoked potato mousseline and Bordelaise syrup, both of which are inspired by the saffron, whiskey, lavender, and rose bouquet found in L’Artisan’s Skin on Skin.
— Los Angeles restaurant Patina is offering a Valentine's Day dinner inspired by L'Artisan Parfumeur's Explosion d'Emotion trio. Read more at Patina Partners with L’Artisan Parfumeur for Valentine’s Day Dinner at Haute Living.
Fragonard has launched Pois de Senteur, a new fragrance celebrating the sweet pea, Fragonard’s flower of the year for 2014. Other recent launches from the house include Le Jardin de Fragonard…