Chris Hemsworth, back again for Boss Bottled Infinite.
The (almost) daily lemming
From Diptyque's upcoming Raw Materials in Color collection, L'Ombre dans L'Eau in a 30 (yay!) ml tinted bottle exploring the relationship between color and scent. The series also includes Do Son, Eau de Sens, Philosykos and Tam Dao.
Tuesday scent of the day 6/11
Happy Tuesday! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing a little dab of Narciso by Narciso Rodriguez (Eau de Parfum, aka White Cube), and drinking a cup of Hong Cha Mao Feng from Upton.
Reminder: on 6/14, we’re doing the picture challenge, edition 4, part 2…
Bruno Fazzolari Unsettled ~ fragrance review, with an aside on Jean Patou Colony
It was an emergency. A few weeks ago, I was decanting the last of my Jean Patou Colony Extrait into an atomizer, and the atomizer toppled. I managed to save most of it, and I mopped up the rest with my forearms, but the writing was on the wall. Before long, my beloved Colony, a pineapple chypre as goofy and glamorous as Carole Lombard jumping on the bed in My Man Godfrey and as gentle as goose down in a breeze, would be a memory. (Sob.)
I was lamenting this to Tracy at Fumerie, and she asked if I’d ever tried Bruno Fazzolari Unsettled. The Nevada Museum of Art commissioned Fazzolari to create Unsettled — the fragrance, plus a uranium glass bottle shaped like an atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud — for a 2018 exhibition on Western art…
Diptyque Essences Insensees 2019 ~ new fragrance
Diptyque will launch Essences Insensées 2019, the fourth limited edition harvest-based fragrance in the La Collection 34 series (see Essences Insensées 2014, Essences Insensées 2015 and Essences Insensées 2016). This year’s edition centers on Tahitian gardenia, aka tiaré…