Happy Guerlain Day! Our community project for today: wear something by Guerlain. We already did this in summer, now we’re doing it again for winter (or, for some of you, the other way around).
As always, do chime in even if you’re not wearing Guerlain.
I’m wearing a wee drop of vintage Shalimar extrait. But not, alas, from that bottle. I have a tiny sample and wear it a drop at a time…
The Organic Pharmacy’s Organic Glam line has launched Rose Oud, a new fragrance…
Calvin Klein has launched the annual limited edition summer versions of 1988’s Eternity and 1989’s Eternity for Men…
I saw Aerin Lauder in person once, just for a few fleeting seconds. She was sitting in a lunch meeting at an uptown eatery in Manhattan. She looked just as she often looks in photographs: very pretty, very polished, reserved and just a touch skeptical. I kept thinking of that sighting when I was trying out Rose de Grasse, a new floral fragrance for women recently launched by Lauder’s namesake Aerin brand.
Rose de Grasse is described as a “captivating scent — pristine, sophisticated, unexpected and iconic,” and an homage to several varieties of roses. It combines notes of centifolia rose, Bulgarian rose and “rose absolute” (no specific rose named here) with ambrette seed, a “watery accord,” violet wood, ambrox and musk. My main impression is that Rose de Grasse is made with good-quality ingredients, even if leans more towards the “pristine and sophisticated” rather than the “unexpected and iconic…”