An advent calendar that didn't make it into Part 1 and Part 2: Antica Farmacista's 12 Days of Antica. Comes with 3 votive candles and a wick trimmer, bar soap, body wash, hand cream and more, including a 100 ml diffuser. $178 at Antica Farmacista.
Dirty gym socks wrapped around a rotten steak
“Well, I’d say it smells like dirty gym socks wrapped around a rotten steak,” said Jonathan Goodrich, an associate director at the garden. “Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty descriptive.”
[...]“It releases the smell in waves,” Goodrich said. “It pulses, in a sense.”
— Maladora, a corpse flower at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, has bloomed. Read more at ‘Gym socks and rotten steak:’ Corpse flower blooms at UC garden at Berkeley News.
Le Jardin Retrouve Citron Boboli & Sandalwood Sacre ~ fragrance reviews
Why are so many fragrances, not to mention entire fragrance lines, inspired by travel or destinations? Fashionista recently posed this question, without quite getting around to answering it. While I may not have the answer, either, I do know that it’s not a new idea, no matter what Fashionista may say: I’m thinking waaay back to best-selling classics like Evening in Paris, but also to more recent destination-inspired scents from Hermès (remember Un Jardin sur le Nil?) and L’Artisan Parfumeur (Bois Farine! Timbuktu!), not to mention entire brands like Bond no. 9.
If you’d asked me a month ago, I might have had some deep theory about this, but my current reality is that I’m laid up with a broken ankle and I just want to close my eyes and imagine places other than my living room. So I’m back with two more fragrances from Le Jardin Retrouvé, following my thoughts on Cuir de Russie…
Online fragrance shopping
New at bloomingdales: Trish McEvoy 100.
New at indigoperfumery: Beaufort Iron Duke, January Scent Project Vaporocindro.
New at luckyscent: Gallivant Berlin & Amsterdam.
New at twistedlily: Ormonde Jayne line.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Black Nomad ~ new fragrance
Swedish football star Zlatan Ibrahimović has launched Black Nomad, a new limited edition fragrance for men…