If you are in need of a bottle of (Annick) Goutal Petite Chérie or Rose Pompon, you might check out the limited edition designs in collaboration with UK embroidery Artist Ellie MacDonald. In 100 ml (shown at left), or in 20 ml gel roll-on (shown at right), currently on the Goutal websites in France and the UK.
Two regional videos (one is below the jump) for L’Occitane Herbae.
It’s Friday and Walt Whitman’s birthday. It’s also World No Tobacco Day, and our community project for today is to compensate by wearing something smoky (it doesn’t have to smell like tobacco in particular).
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’m doing full-on smoky tobacco, but lightly, with a tiny, out-of-season dab of Kerosene Broken Theories…
"I get the chance to see perfume formulas that I would never have thought of myself," says Apel. Because knowledge and experience often pose as limits to creativity: "I tend to prefer certain ingredients and want to make a very specific kind of scent," he admits.
Philyra is more impartial in her approach.
— Perfumer Dave Apel, talking about the artificial intelligence system Philyra (we have mentioned this before here and here). Read more at Artificial intelligence creates perfumes without being able to smell them at DW. (And Philyra's first fragrances have just launched: O Boticário Egeo On Me and Egeo On You; the text is in Portuguese.)
A spot for Bvlgari's Omnia collection.