Italian niche line Profumi del Forte has launched two new fragrances, Toscanello and Vetiver Moderno…
I see you
Model Joan Smalls, writhing for Moschino Gold Fresh Couture. No full nudity, but possibly NSFW (and a complete change from the more humorous approach taken with the original fragrance).
The daily lemming
Washi tape decorated with antique perfume labels, in pink (left) and blue (right). $6.50 each at A Blank Note.
Imitating nature was not Jicky’s point
In a world where Impressionism was giving way to abstraction, Aimé Guerlain loved art. “Cézanne was out there blowing a fuse, pushing landscapes beyond the image,” the Guerlain perfumer Thierry Wasser said. “For me, Jicky does the same. That’s what still makes it modern today.”
Unlike the perfumery codes of the day, imitating nature was not Jicky’s point.
— The New York Times investigates Guerlain Jicky. Read more at The Icon: Jicky, by Guerlain.
Sana Jardin Revolution de la Fleur, Berber Blonde & Tiger By Her Side ~ fragrance reviews
Just in case you haven’t noticed, the phrases “conscious consumerism” and “sustainable luxury” have been appearing with increasing frequency over the past year or two. And now we have Sana Jardin, “the world’s first socially-conscious, luxury fragrance house. . . . created primarily as a vehicle for social change to power social impact through the economic empowerment of women through The Beyond Sustainability™ Movement.”
If you’d like to do some reading about Sana Jardin’s back story and business model, you can find plenty of information on the company website. I’ll limit myself to brief reviews of three Sana Jardin fragrances (from a collection of seven, all developed by perfumer Carlos Benaïm) that I’ve been trying over the past week or so, and you can decide for yourself what socially conscious fragrance might be and how far you’re willing to go for it…