Diesel will launch Only The Brave Wild in September. The new fragrance for men is a flanker to 2009’s Only The Brave, and follows 2012’s Only The Brave Tattoo…
Lazy weekend poll ~ Haiku challenge 2014!
Today, our fifth annual Haiku Challenge (if you like, you can check out 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 for inspiration).
Pick a perfume or a perfume house (or really, anything related to perfume), write a haiku about it. Use the simplified English form — your haiku should have three lines, the first line with five syllables, the second line with seven syllables and the third line with five syllables. You can put the perfume name in the title if that makes it easier, and at any rate, don’t stress over the rules of traditional haiku — this is just for fun…
The freebiemeet, episode 2
Le Prix Eau Faux 2014 ~ a few more entries, part 3
The last batch of entries that didn’t make it to the finals of the 2014 Prix Eau Faux — if you missed it, we’ve already announced this year’s winner, and we’ve posted the first round of entries and the second (there are too many to post or read all at once)…
Jo Malone Silk Blossom ~ fragrance review
I grew up in house in the New Jersey suburbs, where we were fortunate to have a partially wooded backyard that was perfect for all kinds of make-believe games. I was also very fond of one of the trees that stood on our front lawn: we called it a “mimosa,” although now I know that it would have more properly been described as Albizia julibrissin, or a “silk tree.” I liked the tree’s split trunk (which offered just enough space to perch a foot or two above the ground), its slender seed pods, its ferny leaves, but most of all, its flowers. They were as soft as tiny feather dusters, slightly sticky with pollen dust at their deep-pink, fringed ends, and scented with a magically sweet smell.
Jo Malone has just released a fragrance called Silk Blossom, and its promotional photographs feature a background of the flowers that I remember from my childhood…