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A Fairytale Holiday Season

Posted by Robin on 4 December 2019 Leave a Comment

The holiday video from Dolce & Gabbana Beauty.

A sumptuously fragranced Fendi handbag

Posted by Robin on 4 December 2019 3 Comments

Alas, money can’t buy love. But it can buy a sumptuously fragranced Fendi handbag—a close second, to be sure. In a new collaboration, [perfumer Francis] Kurkdjian has teamed up with the storied Roman luxury house and its creative director, Silvia Venturini Fendi, to infuse the label's famed Baguette (arguably the first true It Bag) with a new scent, FendiFrenesia.

— Read more in Francis Kurkdjian and Fendi Partner to Create Perfumed Leather Handbags: “Scent Hits the Brain with No Filter” at W.

Tuesday scent of the day 12/3

Posted by Robin on 3 December 2019 214 Comments

Tuesday and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m running late again, sorry! And I’m copying Jepster’s pick from yesterday, Ineke Idyllwild. Tea at the moment is Lubini Estate Ceylon from Upton.

Reminder: on 12/6 we’re doing Scents of the Season, part 1…

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The ones that are plugged in

Posted by Robin on 3 December 2019 2 Comments

Air freshener. A really synthetic air freshener. The ones that are plugged in. Like loss and heartbreak, I just want it to go away.

— Michelle Feeney of Floral Street on the smell of heartbreak. Read more in For This Fragrance Founder, Friendship Smells Like Fresh Limes at The Cut.

Masque Milano Love Kills ~ fragrance review

Posted by Angela on 2 December 2019 11 Comments

Masque Milano Love Kills is a punk rock name for an operatic fragrance. In this case, the music has to do with roses.

Perfumer Caroline Dumur developed Love Kills. Its notes include Turkish rose, geranium, ambrette, patchouli, cedarwood, musk and ambergris. (I’m not going to quote the fragrance’s description in Masque Milano’s press materials, because, frankly, I don’t understand it. It tosses around literary and musical references with vague observations about “a rose by any other name” and how fleeting life is…)

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