Roger & Gallet has launched Mandarine, a new limited edition fragrance for summer 2018…
Friday scent of the day 6/22
Happy Friday, and welcome to edition 3 of the Picture challenge! Our community project for today: wear a perfume that matches the picture, which is David Hockney’s Beverly Hills Housewife, from 1966. You can read more about the painting here and here.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I had trouble with this one, not least because the sorts of fragrances that seem to fit the picture are not fragrances I own. My first pick, if I had any, would be Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche. Instead I’m in a dab of vintage Chanel No. 19…
The daily lemming
The Luckyscent Discovery Set from Zoologist: "Explore the vast environment of Zoologist's engaging, challenging, uniquely beautiful fragrances in a gift-worthy discovery set curated exclusively for Luckyscent and featuring the LS exclusive Hyrax scent." With 11 ml sprays of Camel, Hyrax, Macaque, Moth and Panda, $145 at Luckyscent.
Fragrance was lawless
While decoupling fragrance and gender may seem like a modern idea, art historian Jessica Murphy points out that it is really an old idea.
For the majority of it history, fragrance has known no gender. She sees the industrial revolution and resulting commercialization of fragrance as the period when it came to be partitioned into two genders. Before this time, fragrance was lawless — the scent of a rose or a strong musk was open to all.
— Our Dr. Jessica, quoted in Why Men Are Realizing That Smelling Like a Desert Rose Isn't Half Bad at Inverse.
5 Roses for June ~ body products review
Although I’ve garnered something of a reputation as a rose-lover over the past decade, I don’t review rose fragrances exclusively — in fact, my last rose perfume review was Sana Jardin Tiger by Her Side (November 2017) and my last rose body product review was even further back (September 2017). Since June is the month of roses, it seems like an appropriate time to update this situation! Here are a few rose-fragranced body products that I’ve recently tried.
I need to thank one of you (thanks, Creosote!) for recommending Andalou Naturals 1000 Roses Soothing Body Lotion to me. Its consistency is just right: almost thick enough to qualify as a cream, but lightweight enough to spread and absorb without any waiting time…