Tuesday scent of the day 6/27

Posted by Robin on 27 June 2017 320 Comments

plum bow elephant mugs

Happy Tuesday, and happy Pineapple Day and happy Helen Keller Day. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m wearing Berdoues Assam of India, because elephants!* I do not know how popular Berdoues was in other countries before they started their Grand Crus collection, but I certainly never saw them regularly mentioned in the scent of the days polls here until they found the magic of lemmable perfume bottles. I wish my tea at the moment was something matchy, maybe from one of the fantastic elephant tea caddies from Williamson Tea (check out that Mindfulness tea!) but alas, I am too cheap to have one shipped from the UK. So I am drinking a very nice Assam from Upton and that is as matchy as I will get today…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 27 June 2017 4 Comments

Alaïa Paris and Alaïa Blanche Python Impression

Box porn, maybe? 30 ml bottles of Alaïa Paris and Alaïa Blanche, in the Python Impression limited edition collector packaging, inspired by Azzedline Alaïa's fit-and-flare python dresses. €57 each at Breuninger in Germany.

Perfume is like the salt and pepper to sex appeal

Posted by Robin on 27 June 2017 2 Comments

Ultimately, though, he thinks young people will want good fragrances because of, well, sex. “People have not stopped sleeping with one another. And perfume is like the salt and pepper to sex appeal, and to the act itself. I’m not worried about that,” says Malle. “What is worrying is to keep on having people that don’t do their jobs properly, either because they’re mass and they’re selling image rather than perfumes or because they are bad indie brands that don’t know what they’re doing. But I think if you do things well, they will come.”

— Read more at Frederic Malle Can Sell You $1,500 Perfume at Racked.

Maison Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 26 June 2017 55 Comments

Maison Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir

My coworkers Brigid and Aimee have worked together for years and are good friends. When they see each other, one will often say in a sultry voice, “Oh, hi” like she’s pretending to run into her high school crush by the locker, when in fact she planned the “accident” all morning. It’s alluring, theatrical, and goofy — over-the-top in the best way — and it cracks me up and warms my heart every time.

This is how I feel about Maison Francis Kurkdjian Grand Soir. It’s a dense, sparkling amber-woody fragrance that is to perfume like chocolate volcano cake is to dessert, a marvel of too-muchness I find hard to resist…

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