Laura Dern, Tavi Gevinson and Sasheer Zamata write themselves love letters, for Kate Spade In Full Bloom.
Wednesday scent of the day 2/28
Hump Day, and the last day of February, plus, Pink Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Serge Lutens Sa Majesté la Rose. I do smell awfully pretty.
Reminder: 3/2 will be Uncle Serge Day…
The daily lemming
Spring to go: a trio of 15 ml floral fragrances from Acqua di Parma, in Peonia, Magnolia, and Rosa. £50 at Debenhams in the UK.
A hundred molecules
“We felt the need to keep these olfactory memories,” says Rabeau. Along with chemist Geraldine Savary from the University of Havre, he and Apalategui spent eight years developing a technique to reproduce human scent. The process remains a closely guarded secret, but in a 2015 interview, Savary gave a few clues: “we take the person’s clothing and extract the odour—which represents about a hundred molecules—and we reconstruct it in the form of a perfume in four days.”
— Read more at Immortalizing Human Scents as Memory Perfumes at Atlas Obscura.
Hermes Agar Ebene, Cedre Sambac, Myrrhe Eglantine, Cardamusc & Musc Pallida ~ new fragrances
Hermès has launched five new fragrances in the brand’s luxury Hermessence line. Agar Ebène, Cèdre Sambac and Myrrhe Eglantine are available in the Eau de Toilette concentration typical of the series; Cardamusc and Musc Pallida are in oil-based Essence de Parfum.
All were inspired by the Middle East, and developed by Hermès house perfumer Christine Nagel, who notes that they can be worn alone or layered…