Almost-Friday plus National Day of Encouragement. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in a stress-free zone (we’ll see how that turns out) with Aedes de Venustas Copal Azur.
Reminder: On 9/13, protect yourself from bad (Friday the 13th) juju with a Fierce Force Field Fragrance…
Every great perfume probably loses the market test. It affronts, and so they mark it down. Yet it’s that very quality, I am convinced, that makes it memorable. Give me a fragrance that five per cent of people are totally addicted to and 70 per cent loathe, and I’ll give you a $100 million grant. The reality is that broad appeal means you have to compromise: you end up with the best of the worst and the worst of the best. The average perfume is nice and pretty and forgettable. It’s hard to find one that has enough guts to keep you going.
— Fragrance expert Michael Edwards, author of Perfume Legends. Perfume Legends II has just been published (look for an announcement later today). Read more at A fragrance connoisseur explains the ingredients required to make an iconic scent at Vogue Australia.
In France, south of Arles, lies Camargue — a UNESCO-designated biosphere. Camargue is known for many things: its ancient-breed white horses, flamingos (and many other migrating birds), salt production, Camargue red wild rice (referenced in today’s perfume Le Chant de Camargue*) and the Course Camarguaise — Camargue’s brand of bloodless bull-fighting (or “race”). Though the stately black bulls of Camargue are individually known and are not killed in this “sport,” I can’t imagine it’s much fun to be chased, teased, enraged and prodded under a hot sun in front of thousands of screaming humans.
Bulls — one of the world’s unluckiest animals…
Comme des Garçons will launch their fourth fragrance in collaboration with Monocle magazine, Scent Four: Yoyogi. Scent One: Hinoki launched in 2008, followed by Scent Two: Laurel in 2009 and Scent Three: Sugi in 2013…
Juliette Has A Gun has launched Not A Perfume Superdose, a new flanker to 2010’s Not A Perfume…