Swiss niche line Ys Uzac will launch Sacre du Printemps, a new fragrance named for Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring…
Thursday scent of the day 10/2
A little warning: the damage poll will start shortly! Meanwhile, what’s your fragrance today?
I’m wearing Demeter Incense layered with Frédéric Malle L’Eau d’Hiver…I didn’t layer them on purpose but it’s actually a nice combination.
Reminder: tomorrow is Purgatory Basket Friday…
Things to worry about, part 357
A survey of 3,000 adults found 39% with the poorest sense of smell were dead within five years - compared to just 10% who identified odours correctly.
Scientists say the loss of smell sense does not cause death directly, but may be an early warning sign.
— Read more at Sense of smell 'may predict lifespan' at BBC. Hat tip to Mahgwet!
Amouage Sunshine ~ new perfume
Niche line Amouage has launched Sunshine, a new white floral fragrance for women. Sunshine joins the Midnight Flower collection, which up until now had featured only home fragrance products…
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Pluriel Masculin ~ fragrance review
Most fougère fragrances are overtly manly and smell old fashioned to contemporary “noses.” When I smell a classic fougère, I think of a well-off/well-fed, outdoorsy, conservatively dressed and groomed man of a certain age, who, when not traipsing through wet woods hunting or hiking, holds court in a plaid-rich den (in a log cabin if resources allow) with one hand clutching a whiskey and the other resting on the forehead of a happy Labrador retriever. Let’s call this guy Traditional. The only fougère perfume I truly loved is extinct: Houbigant Fougère Royale (I don’t much care for the reissue) — it conjured the outdoors, but was dry and buoyant, not soggy.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian just released a new fougère fragrance, Pluriel Masculin: a man can be “one and many things at the same time” sayeth Kurkdjian…