Happy Monday! It’s also Data Privacy Day and Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, and Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s birthday. (PSA: the freebiemeet is still open.) What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m doing cherry cough syrup in Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Black Perfecto.
Reminder: on 2/1, we’ll celebrate Cherry Month…
I began my perfumery training with a company in Holland which is now part of Givaudan (one of the top perfumery companies), after studying Chemistry at Oxford University. Becoming a classically-trained perfumer involves a basic training which takes at least three years.
In this time I learned to recognise over 2,000 ingredients – committing them to memory and being ‘blind tested’ every day. It takes up to five years to become a moderately competent perfumer, and up to 10 to become a capable perfumer.
— UK-based perfumer Ruth Mastenbroek, in My Odd Job: As a perfumer I want to translate emotions into smells at Metro.
We’re celebrating Australia Day with our standard issue lazy weekend open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, a fragrance that reminds you of Australia, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Dolce & Gabbana have launched The Only One 2, a new fragrance for women. The Only One 2 is a flanker to 2018’s The Only One, which was a flanker to 2006’s The One…
From Roger & Gallet, (pretty!) candles to match the Extraits de Cologne collection. Shown is Néroli Facétie (although I think the design is the same on all of them). 175g for €50 at Galeries Lafayette in Paris.