Happy weekend! If you’ve got holidays coming up, hope you are enjoying the calm before the storm. We’re keeping things low-key with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the last fragrance you thought you’d love but hated as soon as it touched your skin, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
From Juliska's Twelve Days of Christmas dinnerware collection, the scented candle: "A modern classic full of whimsy, our Twelve Days of Christmas collection is a fresh holiday pattern illustrated in rich colors. Exquisitely scented with Woodland Vanilla, this candle comes elegantly gift boxed." About $78.
Philosophy has launched Amazing Grace Bergamot, a new flanker to Amazing Grace…
I love a fun scent, something offbeat, eccentric. Perfumers should be allowed to “go overboard” on occasion, so I was mildly intrigued (the most I can muster these days) by the new Clash collection from Comme des Garçons. The company describes the three-scent series this way…
Issue 8 of Nez is out: "Dior Addict, Opium, Obsession... The allusions to illicit products and the conversation of addiction have long accompanied the creation of perfume. But can the latter really induce habituation? Because if perfume and smoke are originally linked, it is the invention of ethanol production processes that drove the development of the sector. [...] Tobacco, alcohol, hard and soft drugs: how does our sense of smell link to addictive substances?" There's also an interview with Serge Lutens and a conversation with Luca Turin. $29 at Luckyscent, or pay $60 and get a 15 ml bottle of Hongkong Oolong ("A smoky, spicy, milky, leathery tea fragrance" by Maurice Roucel).