
Demeter has launched Mandarin Orange, the latest addition to their Fragrance Library…
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Demeter has launched Mandarin Orange, the latest addition to their Fragrance Library…
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Just another Manic Monday! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Serge Lutens Dent de Lait (review coming up this week, possibly tomorrow).
Reminder: on 8/11, wear a fragrance with vetiver, if you have one…
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Jo Malone has launched a “Rich Extract” collection with new concentrations of three fragrances: Tuberose Angelica Rich Extract, Velvet Rose & Oud Rich Extract and Oud & Bergamot Rich Extract…
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Three of the many perfume-related iPhone cases at Society6: "Guerlain Perfumes", "Girl Stuff" and "Sepia". $28 each.
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I am no qualified nose but, to me, all of these fragrances smelt pleasant rather than weird, and they were somewhat similar. Dent de Lait is lateral thinking on childhood - it smells like baby powder. Concrete supposedly has metallic threads underneath the rose, but it’s buried too deep for me – it’s certainly the sweetest concrete I have ever smelt. Rubchinskiy’s fragrance will appeal to the teenagers that occupy skateparks but it’s clean and out-of-the-shower, rather than gritty - the rubber and tar seem absent.
— Lauren Cochrane of The Guardian finds niche perfumes don't always live up to their promise. Read more at Wake up and smell the concrete: the rise of alt perfumes.