New at luckyscent: Floris 1988, 1976 & 1962.
New at macys: Cartier La Panthere Edition Soir.
Tuesday scent of the day 10/4
Happy World Animal Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I went with Hiram Green Dilettante. Tea at the moment is a Ceylon from Tea Bank Estate, via Upton.
Reminder: on 10/7 we’re doing “At the movies”…
Matriarchal and powerful
My wildly eccentric grandmother wore Revlon’s Charlie. I remember the blue box with its jaunty italic script and the notes of white flowers and burnt trees – it felt matriarchal and powerful. Fitting for a woman who went though five husbands and once scared off a burglar by pulling his trousers down.
— Emily Dean asks Is There Such A Thing As A Feminist Scent? at InStyleUK.
Alber Elbaz par Frederic Malle Superstitious ~ new perfume
Frédéric Malle’s second designer collaboration (after Dries Van Noten par Frédéric Malle, which debuted in 2013), will be with Alber Elbaz. Elbaz was the designer at Lanvin until last year, and was awarded the Légion d’Honneur today. The fragrance will be called Superstitious…
Ciro Danger ~ fragrance review
Perfume lovers seem to fall into one of two camps about vintage fragrances. Either they seek them out, eager to try many iterations of their favorites; or they avoid them, fearing that they’ll fall in love with a perfume they’ll never smell again. I fall into the “better to have loved and lost than never loved at all” camp. Usually, that’s fine. I mean, there’s always another good perfume coming along, right? But when my 1.25 dram bottle of Parfums Ciro Danger extrait runs out, my heart will break.
Danger, released in 1938, is a rich, dark rose with an animalic edge. I have to wonder if it was inspired by Schiaparelli Shocking, released the year before. The big difference is that Danger’s rose is balanced by helpings of cinnamon and lavender. The result is seductive and romantic, but intriguingly odd…