Demeter has launched Crème Anglaise and Wisteria, the latest additions to their Fragrance Library…
Thursday scent of the day 10/12
Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also Pulled Pork Day, and UN Spanish Language Day. And a quick PSA: the splitmeet is coming up on Saturday! What fragrance are you wearing?
I put on a dab of Madly Kenzo (by Aurélien Guichard) to see if I would like it any better than I did when I reviewed it. Nope. This one is not going to grow on me.
Reminder: on 10/13, wear a fragrance by Aurélien Guichard or Jean Guichard…
The daily lemming
One more lemming from Etta + Billie before I move on: Horchata soap. "Creamy vitamin rich rice milk + sweet warming cinnamon blend in this Horchata inspired soap. Kiwi seeds gently exfoliate. Almost better than the drink. Almost." $12 for 142g.
Between a perfume and a potion
Oils are touted as something between a perfume and a potion, a substance that can keep you smelling nice while also providing physical and psychological benefits. They are often stocked on the same shelves as herbal remedies such as echinacea and St.-John’s-wort; big-box stores sell aromatherapy diffusers as an alternative to synthetic-smelling products like Febreze. The model Miranda Kerr used oils to help her get over her breakup with Orlando Bloom. The pop star Kesha tweeted that she starts off every day by sniffing essential oils: “They make me feel so peaceful.”
— Read more at How Essential Oils Became the Cure for Our Age of Anxiety at The New Yorker.
Jason Wu & Ralph Lauren Woman ~ perfume reviews
Reviews of two recent mainstream designer fragrances: Jason Wu Eau de Parfum and Ralph Lauren Woman. Do comment if you’ve tried either, or if you have tested any other recent mainstream designer fragrances that you’d like to tell us about.
Jason Wu Eau de Parfum
Jason Wu’s eponymous scent is his first, and is meant to reflect the jasmine growing near his childhood home in Taiwan — a focus the designer chose after blind-smelling hundreds of raw materials with perfumer Frank Voelkl. Wu may have found his notes by trial and error, but he had a specific idea of what he wanted his fragrance to be like…