Jacques Zolty has launched Flowersea, a new fragrance that ‘tells the story of a vacation’…
Thursday scent of the day 5/21
Happy strawberries & cream day! What’s your fragrance?
I’m wearing Jo Malone Assam & Grapefruit. Tea at the moment: Upton Jade Mao Feng.
Reminder: this Friday, 22 May, wear something from Jo Malone or perfumer Christine Nagel…
Online fragrance shopping
New at beautyhabit: Lubin Grisette, Penhaligon's As Sawira.
New at indigoperfumery: Kerosene line.
New at neimanmarcus: Carven Pour Homme.
O’Driu S&C KMA ~ new fragrance
Italian niche line O’Driù has launched S&C KMA, a new limited edition unisex fragrance…
Serge Lutens L’Incendiaire ~ fragrance review
“The fire is not within the perfume but within me. I want to ignite the smoldering embers of the perfume world, to put the fire back in perfume!” — Serge Lutens, on his fragrance L’Incendiaire1, the first release in his “luxury” Section d’Or collection
Many creative directors wax rhapsodic (and incoherently) about their perfume lines and themselves. Just this week Roja Dove claimed he introduced OUD to the niche fragrance world in 2011…over a decade after he was beat to the punch by many others (niche, and non-niche). I smiled when I read this bit of hyperbole on the Serge Lutens webpage: “Section d’Or is infinite. Serge Lutens takes infinity to a new level.” Only Lutens can bottle, nay, expand infinity! Read his “writings” if you don’t believe me — read too much, and you’ll want to head beyond infinity yourself for some brain-rest…