New at liberty (UK): Le Galion Aesthete, Vetyver & Cuir.
New at neimanmarcus: Acqua di Parma Colonia Club.
New at nordstrom: Bond no. 9 B9.
Byredo Night Veils ~ new fragrances
Niche line Byredo will launch Night Veils, a new trio of evening-wear fragrances in Extrait de Parfum: Casablanca Lily, Midnight Candy and Reine de Nuit…
Lazy weekend poll ~ 5 questions, mid-October 2015
Update: a quick reminder that the swapmeet will be a week from today!
As always, answer as many or as few as you like.
1. What’s your fragrance today?
2. Ideally, how many bottles would you like to have in your perfume collection? And is your current collection smaller or larger than that number?
3. What’s your absolute favorite home fragrance product? It can be anything — a candle, incense, burning paper or spray.
4. Have you ever bought a home fragrance product that disappointed you? What was it, and what was disappointing about it?
5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything: something you discovered, or ate, or saw, or bought, or that happened to you recently…
Demeter Orchid Collection ~ new fragrances
Demeter has launched the Orchid Collection, featuring five new floral fragrances…
A chemical poem
Perfume is not a smell. It’s what I call a message in a bottle. A smell has no intent. A perfume is like a chemical poem composed by a human being to impart an idea or sensation or emotion to another human being. The best ones are those where the intent is clear, otherwise it’s just something nondescript that smells vaguely good. So if the intent is intelligent, humorous, surprising, novel, profound, then the critic’s job is to read that intent and put it into words. In a sense, you’re simply translating.
— Luca Turin on perfume and perfume criticism. Read more at Follow your nose: a lesson in perfume-making at The Guardian.