French niche line By Kilian will launch Voulez-vous Coucher Avec Moi, a new addition to the In The Garden of Good and Evil series (see In the City of Sin, Forbidden Games, Good Girl Gone Bad and Playing with the Devil)…
Bogue Profumo Maai ~ fragrance review
It’s hard not to anthropomorphize perfume sometimes. In my cinema of perfume, Bogue Profumo Maai is the blue blood, pants-wearing contessa who bursts into the drawing room after a day in the stables — having parsed her time between the horses and the groom — and fires her gaze over the room. She tells one guest to sit up straighter. To another guest, she sneers, “You again.” Then she leans into a vase of tuberose and orange blossoms, and her expression transforms from harridan to angel.
Antonio Gardoni, the founder of Bogue, created Maai, and it was released in 2014…
Improbably successful
The improbably successful Austrian crystal manufacturer is the epitome of shopping mall luxury. It sounds foreign, exclusive, precious. Yet you can buy a pair of Swarovski earrings from Amazon for $17.60. The same total carat weight in diamonds, in a very similar setting, would cost you somewhere north of $5,000, depending on quality and provenance.
Swarovski makes glass and yet the company has managed to create for itself a brand that carries weight in the luxury world, something no other manufacturer of non-gems has ever even tried.
— Read more at DARK CRYSTAL: THE SECRETS OF SWAROVSKI at Atlas Obscura. (found via Boing Boing)
Anthropologie Fictions ~ new fragrances
Later this month, Anthropologie will launch Fictions, a new trio of fragrances “combining the arts of perfumery, storytelling and illustration”: Paris: She Met Him in Secret, London: She Knew He Was Forever and LA: She Called But He Was Unreachable…
Monday scent of the day 7/20
Another Monday morning, folks! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Fleuriste.
Reminder: next Friday, 7/24, will be Perfume Surprise Friday…