Valentino will launch Valentino Donna, a new ‘elegant and timeless’ fragrance for women, next month. Valentino Donna is the feminine counterpart to last year’s Valentino Uomo…
John Varvatos Dark Rebel ~ new fragrance
John Varvatos will launch Dark Rebel, a new woody oriental fragrance for men, this fall…
Demeter Plantain ~ new fragrance
Demeter has launched Plantain, the latest addition to their Fragrance Library…
Trying 20 times
"My approach is very intellectual. I don’t do a lot of work,” [Jean-Claude Ellena] said, smiling. “I’m thinking a lot and making tiny changes. Christine [Nagel] is trying 20 times – her approach is much more intuitive.” On the day that we met, this was made manifest by two blue stickers on Nagel’s arm – perfume trials that she had been working on earlier that day. Ellena, by contrast, never wears scent – save for Terre d’Hermès about three times a year – the better to neutralise his nose.
— Read more about the changing of the guard at Hermès at Hermès perfume: scents of beauty at The Telegraph.
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, Garage Sale Day 2015
I’ll be spending Garage Sale Day on the nation’s highways. Hope the rest of you will be doing something more fun, even if it doesn’t involve a garage sale. And I’ll be home, hopefully, by tonight, so expect posting here to return to normal on Monday.
Meanhile, our standard open thread: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the fragrance you think you ought to wear more than you do, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…