...I replied that the price of a dinner for two with a decent bottle of wine in a decent restaurant was about the upper limit for me, so let’s say $120 or so for 100 ml of EdP or a half ounce of proper extrait. To my mind everything way above that, e.g. Lutens’ Section d’Or and a swelling host of others, are simply sad jokes perpetrated on sad sacks.
— Luca Turin on a reasonable price for perfume. Read more at Enough already at Perfumes I Love.
It would not really be accurate to say I was worried about what perfumer Christine Nagel would do when she took over as house perfumer at Hermès. Plenty of other things keep me up at night, but not that. But certainly I wondered if Hermès would continue to take the bulk of my perfume-spending dollars, or if I’d have to find a new BFF brand to empty my wallet every so often. What I think of as the transitional fragrance duo — Eau de Rhubarbe Écarlate and Eau de Néroli Doré — that marked the passing of the baton from perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena,1 added to the uncertainty, given that I lost interest in Nagel’s Rhubarbe Écarlate within 30 minutes but fairly quickly bought a small bottle of Ellena’s Néroli Doré (and I’m still sorely tempted by the matching body products).
But perhaps I was too quick to judge. Nagel’s first pillar outing, Galop d’Hermès, is darned good, and while it makes its own way, it also eases comfortably into the brand’s existing line up…
Tokyo Milk has launched Pretty Rotten and Novacaine, two new additions to the Dark Collection…
Mandarina Duck has launched So Bella! So Chic!, a new fruity floral fragrance for women. So Bella! So Chic! is possibly a flanker to 2014’s Oh Bella…
New at beautyhabit: Diptyque Essences Insensees 2016.
New at nordstrom: Maison Martin Margiela Replica Filters Glow & Blur, Gucci Guilty Platinum.
New at ulta: Givenchy Dahlia Divin Le Nectar, Versace Eros Pour Femme Eau de Toilette.