A budget lemming for vetiver week: Lalique shower gels in Encre Noire ($10), Encre Noire Sport ($10) and Encre Noire A L’Extreme ($12). 150 ml each at Haute Look, where you can also pick up 100 ml of the Eau de Toilette for $25, or 60 ml in the snazzy crystal edition for $299. (And yes, they have a bunch of other Lalique fragrances too, including a number of the crystal editions. Plus, at the moment, deals on Elizabeth and James Nirvana White and Nirvana Black.)
Spanish fashion brand Desigual has launched Fresh Bloom, a new fruity floral fragrance for women. Fresh Bloom is a flanker to 2015’s Fresh…
Changes are afoot at French niche house Serge Lutens, in case you didn’t get the memo. What was once the “export line”, that is, the scents you could buy in the rectangular 50 ml bottles, is soon to be “Collection Noire”, in 100 ml for €180.1 Some of the fragrances from the export line have been shuffled into what was once the “exclusive line”, that is, the bell jars. The Vapo series, in which “exclusive” fragrances were made widely available in 30 ml travel sizes, is possibly gone. Maybe some scents have been discontinued altogether, maybe they haven’t, I’ve heard both cases stated with authority.2 Reports of the brand’s fragrances being significantly reformulated have been around for years now, and that is true of so many brands that perhaps the time has come when you should never replace a bottle of anything without smelling a new tester first.
None of this really matters much to me. I haven’t adored a new Serge Lutens scent in years,3 and I have so much perfume that I’ll possibly never need to replace any of my old Lutens favorites…
L’Artisan Parfumeur has launched Un Air de Bretagne, a new unisex fragrance. Un Air de Bretagne is the second fragrance in the Les Paysages series that began in 2016 with Bucoliques de Provence…
Tuesday, and International Cat Day, plus Happiness Happens Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m starting vetiver week (a day late) with Honoré des Prés Chaman’s Party.
Reminder: on 8/11, wear a fragrance with vetiver, if you have one…