Beyoncé has launched Shimmering Heat, a new fragrance for women. Shimmering Heat is a flanker to 2010′s Beyoncé Heat…
4711 Remix Cologne ~ new fragrance
4711 has launched Remix Cologne, a new limited edition variation celebrating the 225th anniversary of 4711…
The daily lemming
Bar soaps from Monsillage in Fruit de la Passion ("adds just the right amount of an exotic & tropical fruit smell for a refreshing shower or bath") and Fenouil ("just the right amount of anise in Fenouil makes for a secretly fun way to bathe or shower"), $12 each for a 94g bar (with shea butter, cocoa butter, olive oil and coconut oil) at Indigo Perfumery.
A real pity
It is a problem when an art is turned into caricature. Nowadays, perfumery is a kind of caricature of itself. Vanilla is not the only ingredient that exists. Neither is caramel. I think it causes real damage and is a real pity when it feels like everything smells of either fruit or vanilla or caramel.
— Perfumer Mathilde Laurent. Read more at Cartier in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent: 'People don’t know what they want, and they don’t know what they like' at The National.
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, Lipstick Day 2017
Happy Lipstick Day! MAC stores are apparently handing out free lipsticks (limited supplies, though, and I slept late as usual so possibly they're already gone). It's also International Tiger Day, and Lasagne Day.
We're celebrating all of that and more with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance that matches your favorite lipstick, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…