Niche line By Kilian has introduced a second collection of scented jewelry: Attache-Moi. There are five fragrances and five colors, in necklaces (shown above, $445 each)…
Wednesday scent of the day 5/6
Happy National Beverage Day!* Go ahead, drink something. And meanwhile, do tell us what fragrance you’re wearing today.
I’m drinking a cup of tea, surprisingly enough: Ten Ren Winter Tea 2015 (oolong). My fragrance at the moment is By Kilian Intoxicated.
Reminder: this Friday, 8 May, will be Bottle Porn Friday…
Floris London Bergamotto Positano ~ new fragrance
British perfume house Floris has launched Bergamotto Positano, a new limited edition fragrance in the brand’s By Request series…
The game needs me
“A lot of people that were in the fragrance business before, they’re not here anymore, and that’s from the celebrity side and the brand side. Fragrance is an extremely hard business,” he says. When asked why he dared to re-enter the industry now, Combs replied with his trademark confidence: “Because the game needs me.”
— Sean Diddy Combs on why he launched Sean John 3AM. Read more at Diddy's Second Coming: The Music Mogul on Why the Fragrance Game “Needs” Him and How He’s Helping You Get “Laid” at Style.
Penhaligon’s Ostara ~ perfume review
I have fallen woefully behind on Penhaligon’s — and on many other brands as well, but right now I’ll focus on Penhaligon’s. Someone do comment if any of the four fragrances in their Trade Routes collection (Empressa, Levantium, Lothair and As Sawira) are absolute-must-tries, otherwise, they will remain four more faceless (smell-less?) entities in the sea of niche releases. Who can keep up?
As I’ve said in the past, I’m a bit lukewarm about Penhaligon’s anyway. They do a good job at what they do, but what they do, with one exception, doesn’t especially suit me. The latest, Ostara,1 got my attention because a) it’s narcissus, and b) the graphics are pretty (yes, I’m that shallow) and c) it’s perfumer Bertrand Duchaufour, but a solar floral fragrance that promised to “capture the optimism and sunlight that spring brings” did not sound like his usual…