It’s Tuesday, and it’s Candy Corn Day (timed to remind you to buy Halloween candy, perhaps), and I’m late again. What fragrance are you wearing?
I went with Imaginary Authors O, Unknown! I’m not sure it fits Keats’ autumn but it is a good fit with mine.
Reminder: 11/2 will be To Autumn Friday…
A Green Tea Milk sheet mask from A’Pieu: "Cotton sheet masks from k-beauty brand A’Pieu drenched in a milky essence of active ingredients + fruit extracts that deliver intense moisture to the face. Green Tea is formulated to soothe sensitive skin and balance natural oils." Two masks for $5 at Urban Outfitters.
In the case of the perfumes Philyra made for Boticário, the brand asked for scents that would target millennials living in Brazil. Philyra compared formulas against scents that were popular in that area and age range and came up with two. The first, according to Symrise senior perfumer David Apel, smells like “things I only can associate with exotic cuisine … fenugreek seeds, green cardamom pods, carrot seed, all wrapped with a milky, buttery, rich base note.”
— Last week, when I reported on the AI system IBM is developing for fragrance company Symrise, I missed the more detailed description of its first two fragrance efforts. It's at Vox; read more at Is AI the future of perfume? IBM is betting on it.
Over the summer, a friend’s son, Anders, turned 13 years old. He’s a stylish kid — he likes to raid his departed grandpa’s closet for ascots and Gucci sunglasses and send the resulting selfies to his mom. He also enjoys the company of middle-aged women, so he asked to host his birthday party at my house.
He was impressed by my perfume collection. I suggested he try a spritz of Guerlain Vetiver. Now, Anders doesn’t have a lot of experience with perfume. When he was a kindergartner, he found a bottle of something Avon that he called his “man cologne” for a few weeks, but that’s it…
Serge Lutens for the Gratte-ciel collection and L'Innommable.