PSA: The freebiemeet is coming up on Saturday, 28 September.
Meanwhile, this weekend kicks off with International Day of Peace and World Gratitude Day. We’re marking the holidays with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance that makes you glad to be alive, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
The Jean Paul Gaultier holiday snow globes for Classique (100 ml) and Le Mâle (125 ml) are out already, and they're mighty cute, although they would please me even more if they launched in say, November? Anyway, you can find them at Macy's in the US or Escentual in the UK.
Mexican botanical niche line Xinú has launched Ummo, a new unisex fragrance…*
The promo for Ariana Grande Thank U, Next. Trigger warnings: high school, profanity.
When I read the press release for a new fragrance, I can’t help but imagine how it will smell. I know that the list of notes and the promotional copy need to be taken with a healthy dose of skepticism. All the same, I have fun guessing what the actual experience of the fragrance will be. This week I tried two new-ish scents and neither of them was quite what I’d expected.
First: Gia, the newest fragrance from Tocca, “expresses passion and is given flight by notes of feminine power and purity” in its composition of Turkish rose, pink peppercorn, tangerine, amber and sandalwood. When Gia was first announced, its press release mentioned the artist Georgia O’Keeffe as its inspiration…