Lili Bermuda will launch Mary Celestia, a new limited edition fragrance based on a old Piesse and Lubin London scent recovered from the shipwreck of the Mary Celestia, a blockade runner during the American Civil War. The Mary Celestia was shipwrecked in 1864, and 1864 bottles of the new perfume will be released…
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New at escentual (UK): Annick Goutal Vent de Folie, Jimmy Choo Stars.
New at neimanmarcus: Lalique Encre Noire Sport.
New at sephora: Philosophy Celebrate Grace.
French lingerie brand Aubade will launch Anecdote, a new perfume for women, in October. Their first fragrance, Aubade Le Parfum, was introduced last year…
Until a sample of Providence Perfume Co Bay Rum cologne showed up in my mailbox, I’d been vaguely curious about Bay Rum colognes, but not enough to track one down. I’d seen darling straw-thatched bottles of Bay Rum in hat stores by the cash register and the odd retro-looking bottle at a family-owned drugstore. But I couldn’t tell you what Bay Rum smelled like. Well, now I can. And I like it.
According to Wikipedia, Bay Rum cologne is a West Indies cologne, probably originating in Saint Thomas, made from rum, the leaves and berries of the West Indian bay tree (not the culinary bay you might be more familiar with), and spices such as clove and cinnamon. In short, it’s a warm, spicy scent that lovers of linear, spicy fragrances along the lines of L’Artisan Parfumeur Tea for Two and Laura Mercier Minuit Enchanté might want to investigate…
It’s very much in the style of people like Edmond Roudnitska, like a modern version of Eau de Rochas and other scents from the 1970s. It’s that type of writing we went back to. It’s very true to the flower, actually. I discovered a while ago that Roudnitska had a magnolia planted in his garden. It’s something that I always kept in mind, thinking, What would he have done?
— Frédéric Malle, talking to Bora Kwon about his new Eau de Magnolia fragrance, in an interview at Tank Magazine.