Hump Day again! If you have a free moment, do tell us your fragrance of the day.
I’m wearing Comme des Garçons Vettiveru.
Reminder: this Friday, 10/30, will be the Halloween Special…
Derek Lam 10 Crosby ~ new fragrances
Designer Derek Lam has launched 10 Crosby, a collection of 10 fragrances named for his diffusion line (and business address) of the same name…
All the mysteries
I should think we might fairly gauge the future of biological science, centuries ahead, by estimating the time it will take to reach a complete, comprehensive understanding of odor. It may not seem a profound enough problem to dominate all the life sciences, but it contains, piece by piece, all the mysteries. Smoke: tobacco burning, coal smoke, wood-fire smoke, leaf smoke. Most of all, leaf smoke. This is the only odor I can will back to consciousness just by thinking about it.
— Lewis Thomas, quoted in The Poetics of Smell as a Mode of Knowledge at BrainPickings. Hat tip to Becca!
2 for Tuesday: Le Labo The Noir & Nomenclature Iri_del
Quick fragrance reviews of Le Labo Thé Noir 29 and Nomenclature iri_del.
Le Labo Thé Noir 29
We all know better by now than to expect anything from the perfume names at niche line Le Labo: they’re named for the note in greatest concentration, NOT for the note that “stars” in the fragrance. And I do know that, but I just can’t help myself. I was hoping for a big black tea (preferably a nicely smoked Earl Grey) from Thé Noir 29 and was consequently disappointed by this fresh, pale amber-y wood with hints of fig and a slight rose-y floral note…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles (& some other stuff) 2015, part 24
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US. Today’s post includes collector editions from Lalique, Annick Goutal and Diptyque; plus a new Parfum concentration of Tory Burch.
From Lalique, the 2016 limited edition anemone crystal flacon of Lalique de Lalique. $1800 for 100 ml, signed and numbered, at Lalique…