New at indigoperfumery: Tauer Amber Flash.
New at luckyscent: Byredo Rose of No Man's Land.
New at nordstrom: Dolce & Gabbana The One Essence.
Tuesday scent of the day 11/10
Happy Tuesday! If you have a spare moment, do tell us your fragrance of the day.
I’m wearing Van Cleef & Arpels Bois d’Iris.
Reminder: this Friday will be Cheap Thrill Friday…
Lubin Upper Ten ~ new fragrance
French niche line Lubin has launched Upper Ten, a new spicy woods fragrance for men. Upper Ten does not appear to be related to an older, long-discontinued Lubin fragrance of the same name…
An indescribable energy and sense of purity
Perfumes, like all works of art, are more powerful when they’re simple. There’s an indescribable energy and sense of purity that sets apart great works of art from the more common ones. It’s hard to make these very streamlined fragrances, but they’re worth the effort. That’s one of the differences between a classic and flavor of the moment.
— Frédéric Malle, on his motto “Eliminate all that is superfluous or merely decorative.” Read more at New To NM: Frédéric Malle and his unconventional take on fragrance.
Aftelier Vanilla Smoke ~ fragrance review
Autumn and the scent of smoke seem made for each other. Maybe it’s the nostalgia of the season’s first wood fires, or a taste of peaty Scotch, or the steaming pots of smoky Lapsang Souchong tea that sound so good on a rainy afternoon, but for me it’s hard to separate smoke and November. For that reason, I looked forward to sampling Aftelier Vanilla Smoke.
Not that I didn’t have my concerns. After all, not all smoke is good smoke. Would the smoke be toasty or touched with cumin (like real wood smoke can be) or acrid? Worse, would the vanilla smell like cake batter? Fortunately, with Mandy Aftel we’re in good hands…