Hey, it’s Almost-Friday! Plus, Popcorn Day and Janis Joplin’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Annick Goutal Mandragore.
Reminder: on 1/20, wear one of your “top 10 of winter” fragrances…
Bamboo
Polina Oganicheva in an ad for Gucci Bamboo. You can see the original Gal Gadot ad here.
A dollar’s scent evolves as it circulates
The hunt is complicated by the fact that a dollar’s scent evolves as it circulates—from an inky-cotton fragrance fresh from the bank to an earthier, greasy-palm smell that should remind people to wash their hands more often. [...] Starting with base notes of cotton, soap and ink, Mr. vom Ende says, the scent sweeps in odors derived from more than 100 volatile organic chemicals. It includes whiffs of leather from time spent in wallets and handbags, a metallic tang that evokes cash registers, salty human sweat and even bacterial and bathroom smells.
— Perfumer Marc vom Ende of Symrise bottles the smell of money for artist Mike Bouchet. Read more at What Gives Money Its Distinctive Smell? One Chemist Tried to Find Out at The Wall Street Journal, or go smell it at Bouchet's exhibit Tender, which runs through February 25th at the Marlborough Chelsea gallery in New York City.
Sylvaine Delacourte Helicriss ~ fragrance review
Since he joined Guerlain as in-house perfumer in 2008, I’ve blamed Thierry Wasser for all the new Guerlains that are awash in white musk. I even thought he might not be able to control himself and add some white musk to Mitsouko or Eau de Cologne Impériale or L’Heure Bleue. I imagined him in charge of the installation of an Olympic-size swimming pool under Guerlain headquarters that, upon completion, was filled with white musk. (Guerlain is doing well financially, so white musk works for them and lots of perfume consumers…if not for me.)
I may have been putting too much blame on Wasser’s shoulders because his cohort, Sylvaine Delacourte, until recently the Director of Fragrance Evaluation and Development at Guerlain, just launched her own perfume line with a collection of fragrances centered around — white musk. Now I imagine Thierry and Sylvaine cavorting in the Guerlain musc blanc pool, planning their next nose-ache in a bottle…
Fiesta
A short spot for 25 years of Escada summer editions plus the new Fiesta Carioca.