I featured these Method body washes in a lemming post early last year, but I never bought them and now there's a trial size coffret for just $5.99, with three 100 ml bottles of Deep Detox (cucumber, seaweed and green tea), Energy Boost (citrus, ginger and sea buckthorn) and Pure Peace (peony, rosewater and pink sea salt). At Target. If anyone ever tried them, do comment!
A spot for Azzaro Wanted Girl.
Italian niche line Eau d’Italie has launched Easy To Love, a new fragrance…
You may not know Annette Green’s name, but if you have ever worn perfume, shopped for perfume, or enjoyed the scent of someone else’s perfume, you have likely been touched by her long and remarkable career. For more than forty years, she worked at the Fragrance Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the perfume industry in the United States. As the executive director and, later, the president, she did more than perhaps any other figure to shape the trajectory of the modern fragrance industry.
— From A Grande Dame of the Perfume Industry Turns Ninety-Five at The New Yorker.
A bit of background: The sixth in the Hermès Jardin series, and the first from perfumer Christine Nagel, who took over as the house perfumer in 2016.
The inspiration: The Jardin series perfumes generally find an inspiration, however manufactured it might be (remember The Perfect Scent: A Year Behind the Scenes of the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York by Chandler Burr?), in some exotic garden someplace else — that is, not in New Jersey (which really does have lovely gardens, but you know what I mean), or your own backyard…