Most people generally rotate between three and five scents for the year or part of it, says Harris. That said, there is no strict rule about such things; the point is not to accumulate a trunk-load of bottles that will expire before you have used them all up (the shelf life for most fragrances is three to six months).
— British perfumer Lyn Harris, in A Perfumer’s Guide to Building the Perfect Fragrance Wardrobe in 2018 at Vogue.
Are you a fan of chestnuts? If so, was this an acquired taste for you? I’ve been a chestnut-lover for most of my life, only because roasted chestnuts figured prominently in two family traditions that took place during the holiday season. One: my grandmother and my mother and I would go together to see the Christmas windows of Manhattan’s department stores, and my grandmother would buy me a small paper bag of roasted chestnuts from a street vendor, to eat as we walked along. Two: my grandparents prepared roasted chestnuts as part of the dessert course on Thanksgiving and Christmas, roasting them in the oven after my grandfather had made a small X or cross on each one with the point of a knife (to prevent them from bursting).
These happy memories surrounding the chestnuts, not to mention the chewy, buttery enjoyment of the nuts themselves, would make me want to try any fragrance with a chestnut note. But why do so few perfumes try to capture this sensation…
New at luckyscent: Tom Ford Vanille Fatale.
New at macys: Gucci Guilty Absolute Pour Femme.
Videos from Givaudan (just below; including short appearance by perfumer Jacques Huclier) and Firmenich Naturals (below the jump) on sourcing initiatives with patchouli farming communities in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Giorgio Armani will launch Acqua di Giò Absolu, a new fragrance for men, later this month. Acqua di Giò Absolu is a flanker to 1996’s Acqua di Giò…