Monday, but also JK Rowling’s birthday and Raspberry Cake Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m starting the week with vetiver: Paul Smith Story and Guerlain Vetiver.
Reminder: 8/4 will be Compare & Contrast Friday…
Beyonce Shimmering Heat ~ new fragrance
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.