New at indiescents: 8 new from 4160Tuesdays.
New at neimanmarcus: Byredo Mojave Ghost.
New at selfridges (UK): Annick Goutal Vent de Folie.
Brioni by Brioni ~ new fragrance
Italian fashion house Brioni has launched an eponymous fragrance for men (it is unrelated to the 2009 Brioni fragrance, which is now discontinued). Brioni by Brioni was developed in-house, and the bottle is designed to reflect how fabric moves…
Clinique Aromatics in White ~ new perfume
Clinique will launch Aromatics in White, a new fresh floral fragrance for women. Aromatics in White is a flanker to 1971’s Aromatics Elixir…
Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel ~ book review
In fiction, an effective writer uses plot not just to move the story along, but to illuminate an underlying theme. If Mandy Aftel’s Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent were a novel, the plot would be the five essences — cinnamon, mint, frankincense, ambergris, and jasmine — around which she structures the book. The theme would be beauty.
In Fragrant’s first chapter, Aftel writes about how she became involved with perfume, then says:
As I researched and thought about the deeps ways that perfume touches our most primal selves and the collective self of our species, I realized that I had the makings of an adventure story of sorts…
Fait danser Noel
A dancing Christmas from L'Occitane...in the colors of their new Arlésienne fragrance.