If you're heading to Italy, please mule me a Tabacco & Iris box, one of four special edition sets celebrating the 30th anniversary of Phytorelax. Also available in Bergamotto & Patchouli, Legno di Cedro & Mandarino and Pepe Rosa & Pera, each set comes with 50 ml Eau de Toilette plus a 100 ml Shower Gel.
PSA: Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight! (Unless you live in a happy place that doesn’t bother with daylight savings.) And the swapmeet will be next Saturday.
Today: a repeat of a poll we did last year (and the year before that). As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s fall where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.
1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this spring?
2. You have to vote one perfume in your collection off the island. Which one will go first, and why?
3. It’s time for (fantasy) Spring Break! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…
New at beautyhabit: Jardins d'Ecrivains Splash colognes.
New at bloomingdales: Cartier La Panthére Eau de Toilette, Diptyque Tempo & Fleur de Peau.
New at luckyscent: selected Tiziana Tirenzi, Note di Profumum, Parfums de Marly Akaster & Carlisle.
New at nordstrom: Mon Guerlain Florale, Diptyque Tempo & Fleur de Peau, Cartier La Panthére Eau de Toilette, Dolce & Gabbana Dolce Garden, Gucci Guilty Absolute Pour Femme.
New at thebay: Oscar de la Renta Bella Blanca.
Michael Kors has launched Extreme Speed, a new fragrance for men. Extreme Speed is a flanker to 2014’s Michael Kors for Men, and follows 2015’s Extreme Blue and 2017’s Extreme Night…
Sissel Tolaas’s work is more subtle but it’s one of the most innovative – and surprising – pieces in the whole show. It’s a series of small, white, abstract sculptures equally spaced across four walls. These sculptures hide secrets. Each is imbued with scent, which triggers a memory or a feeling or, sometimes, an acute physical reaction.
— Scent artist Sissel Tolaas collected smells from Melbourne, and is now exhibiting them at the NGV Triennial, which runs until April 15 at the National Gallery of Victoria. Read more at Smelling Art with Sissel Tolaas at Broadsheet Melbourne, or find out more about the Triennial here.