Hump day! Plus, I missed Bittersweet Chocolate Day yesterday and mean to make up for it today. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing Lolita Lempicka Sweet, by perfumer Anne Flipo.
Reminder: on 1/13, wear a perfume by Anne Flipo, if you have one…
Gucci will launch Gucci Guilty Absolute Pour Homme, a new flanker to 2011’s Gucci Guilty Pour Homme…
Hundreds of billions of molecules with odors exist. If you want to create a particular scent or flavor, say char-grilled beef, rose petals or freshly baked bread, you’d need to screen thousands or millions of compounds to match what you were looking for. It would take thousands of hours and hundreds of thousands of dollars in human testing.
An Arizona State University scientist helped create an algorithm that winnows down 99 percent of that workload.
— Read more at ASU scientist helps make scents of it all at Arizona State University.
Nina Ricci will launch L’Extase Rose Absolue, a new flanker to 2015’s L’Extase. L’Extase Rose Absolue follows last year’s L’Extase Caresse de Roses…
Italian niche house Maria Candida Gentile’s latest release, Lankaran Forest, was originally developed as the “bespoke fragrance” for the 2nd Buta Festival of Azerbaijani Arts, held in London in 2015. For that event, set designer Francisco Rodriguez-Weil created a scene inside the Royal Academy of Arts (see above) recalling forests near the Azerbaijan city of Lankaran. Maria Candida Gentile based her fragrance on a tour of Azerbaijan, including those forests (known for their ironwood trees), as well as the Yanar Dag fire mountain, the Absheron peninsula, and the tea and citrus plantations near Lankaran. At the festival, the scent was diffused in the “forest”, and was presented in two concentrations in Lalique bottles.
For the 2016 commercial release under the Maria Candida Gentile label, Lankaran Forest moved into the regular brand packaging…