Monday! Plus, World Voice Day and Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Hermès Myrrhe Églantine, from probably the most saturated brand in my collection. Partial credit? I am indeed still wearing my bathrobe, and I’m going to have another cup of Kenilworth Pekoe before I get back to finishing up my ???? taxes.
Reminder: on 4/20 we’re doing Can’t stop, won’t stop…
Caswell Massey teamed up with perfumer Laurent Le Guernec and the New York Botanical Garden, and used headspace technology to come up with the four floral fragrances in their Living Botanicals collection: Honeysuckle, Gardenia, Lilac and Beatrix (rose). You can get 15 ml bottles for $25 each, or shell out $60 for all four. There are also other sizes, plus soaps and hand creams.
Since opening in early March, Wax & Wine has hosted two bridal showers and a few birthday and just-because gatherings. You can walk in and make a candle, or you can rent out the back room for a party. It costs $30 to make one eight-ounce candle ($45 for two and $50 for three), about the same it costs to buy a 14-ounce Yankee Candle.
On a recent evening, 12 women in their late 20s and early 30s arrived at Wax & Wine, wearing long coats, long hair, and with wine in hand.
— Anyone else remember those DIY fragrance blending bars at Garden Botanika? (I think they all closed in 2001.) What they were missing was wine. Read more about the DIY candles at Philadelphia's Wax & Wine in How your nose might lead you to your next girl's night out.
As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or, likewise as always, feel free to talk about something else altogether.
1. What fragrance are you wearing today?
2. What’s your favorite fragrance for a rainy day in April?
3. What’s your favorite spring flower, and if you have a favorite perfume based on that flower, what is it?
4. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — a great movie you saw, something delicious you ate, something fun you did recently — really, anything…
New at barneys: The Harmonist line.
New at beautyhabit: Memo Tamarindo, selected Fragonard.
New at luckyscent: selected Affinessence Paris, Parle Moi de Parfum Orris Tattoo & Chypre Mojo, selected Montale.
New at macys: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Italian Zest.
New at nordstrom: Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue Italian Zest.
New at saksfifthavenue: Marc Jacobs Daisy Love, Bond no. 9 Spring Fling.
New at thebay (CA): Moschino So Real Cheap & Chic, Elie Saab Le Parfum in White, Coach Floral, Armani Bleu duo, Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Fig, Moschino Fresh Gold.
New at twistedlily: Histoires de Parfums En Aparté Irrévérent, Outrecuidant & Prolixe, Berdoues Peng Lai.