Almost-Friday, at last. What fragrance are you wearing?
For the 2017 project Take it down a notch, I’m in a little dab of Christian Dior Poison.
Reminder: on 1/12, we’re doing Rinse, repeat…
Oscar de la Renta Bella Blanca ~ new fragrance
Oscar de la Renta will launch Bella Blanca, a new fragrance for women, in March…
The daily lemming
The Bibliotheca Fragrance Discovery Set from Ellis Brooklyn: "A gorgeous library of Ellis Brooklyn scents featuring all six of the brand's eau de parfums. Built for playing and experimenting, spritz the fragrances solo or layer to find your own unique scent." Six 2 ml sprays, $20 at Ellis Brooklyn or Sephora.
Our noses have modernized over time
Calling out synthetic ingredients, which then was kind of a taboo with people saying it has to be natural. Moving forward we know that synthetics can be fascinating. [Comme des Garçons] Garage and Tar are cult classics—you couldn't even find them on eBay. When they came back out, there was chaos. And now when you smell them, they don't seem so bizarre. Our noses have modernized over time. Garage has a really cool rubber gasoline thing that is fascinating on skin and the Tar, an oily asphalt.
— Franco Wright of Luckyscent talks to Coolhunting about their second Scent Bar store in Los Angeles (at the ROW), and about his favorite fragrance brands. Read more in Interview: Adam Eastwood and Franco Wright of Scent Bar.
Savon Oriza Violette Comme Il Faut, Jasmin d’Espagne, Verveine de Venus & Miel d’Angleterre ~ body product reviews
I always seem to order myself “a little something” on Christmas Eve, New Year’s Eve, My Birthday Eve, the first day it hits 70 degrees in Seattle, on Winter Solstice (I live in the Pacific Northwest…I’m OWED for these dark days!) You get the gist, right? I reward myself often, because I’ll die some day and that’s when my ‘rewards points’ expire!
A go-to present-to-self is, many times, fancy soap (I’m not a fan of bath gels). My favorite soap brand right now is Savon Oriza, from Paris-based perfumery Oriza L. Legrand.
My first Savon Oriza purchase remains my favorite (so far): Jasmin d’Espagne. This soap presents fierce, sweet jasmine…