The first Friday of summer! Our community project for today: wear one of your “top 10 of summer” fragrances (unless it’s winter where you are, in which case wear one of your “top 10 of winter” scents).
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m wearing good old Parfum d’Empire Azemour Les Orangers, from my own Top 10 of Summer 2012 list…
Michael Kors has launched Wonderlust Sensual Essence, a new fragrance for women. Wonderlust Sensual Essence is a flanker to 2016’s Wonderlust…
Too Cool for School's Coconut Milky Oil Shower Moisturizing Body Wash sounds tempting, and like it might be a good apres-sun product: "This gentle yet moisturizing coconut shower oil and body wash in one is formulated with 84 percent naturally derived ingredients including natural surfactant extracted from coconut. The oil-to-foam transforming texture changes from oily texture to moisturizing and creamy milk foam once in contact with water, leaving skin silky-smooth. Its slightly acidic pH formula preserves skin's natural oil barrier and maintains balanced oil and water level within skin." $20 for 300 ml at Sephora. Do comment if you've tried it!
After my mother died I needed to get away and traveled to Mauritius and became captivated by the spellbinding scent of frangipani that evoked the emotion of a dream within me. I brought one of the flowers back with me to show Isabelle [Doyen], but it died on my trip back. Luckily when I showed her the flower she was very familiar with it since she lived in Tahiti. It took five years to perfect the fragrance and to balance the sun, the moon, the tree, and the flower.
— Camille Goutal on Annick Goutal Songes. Read more at Annick Goutal: How Passion For Life Inspired One Of France's Most Iconic Perfume Brands at Forbes.
Kai by Gaye Straza recently launched a new feminine fragrance called Kai Rose, a flanker to the brand’s original Kai. Kai was launched way back in 1999 (!), and if you participated in any perfume message boards, perfume swaps, or perfume meet-ups in the following decade, or even received a “gift with purchase” bag from Barneys during that time, you no doubt encountered a perfume vial tagged with Kai’s green-and-white logo…