Hey, it’s finally Friday! Plus, happy Women’s Equality Day. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance by Calvin Klein, if you have one.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m wearing a dab of Calvin Klein Obsession. The temperature is creeping up again here, so a dab is all I will risk, plus, I like Obsession much better at low levels…
Sarah Jessica Parker will launch Stash SJP, a new “fragrance for the human being”, this weekend. The “concept and idea” for Stash SJP predates that of Lovely, the star’s first fragrance, which launched in 2005 under arrangements with Coty. The Sarah Jessica Parker license is currently held by The Lovely Distribution Co…
I’d go to New York and buy the perfume from the shop; this little shop, always with an old man who only made perfumes in the summer with a few students. At some point it closed down. Then I felt awful; for me this was a disaster. So the first perfume I tried was based on this one. I went to a man with a piece of the bottle and told him what I remembered about it, what was in my imagination. And that is what became Prada Amber.
— Designer Miuccia Prada talks about the first perfume she fell in love with (and about the latest Prada fragrances) in Miuccia Prada on being shy, working with her husband and her mad office with a helter skelter at The Telegraph.
Penhaligon’s recently launched two new fragrances, Luna for women and Endymion Concentré for men, inspired by the ancient Greek myth of the moon goddess and her mortal lover. I can never resist a good (and weird) love story, and I’m a “moon child” born in June, so I looked forward to sampling Luna.
Luna is described as a “fresh floral”…
British niche line Roja Parfums will launch Karenina and Oligarch Pour Homme in September. Recently introduced fragrances from the brand include H The Black Tier, O and Sultanate of Oman…