Jean Paul Gaultier Le Mâle turns 25.
Wednesday scent of the day 6/24
Hump Day and Midsummer’s Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Jour D’Hermès Absolu, because KellyC was talking about Jour yesterday.
Reminder: on 6/26, wear a perfume by Une Nuit Nomade, Ulrich Lang, Vilhelm Parfumerie or Vero Profumo if you have one….
A strange smell thought to be some sort of gas
On Saturday (June 20), police officers and firefighters were dispatched to Schweinnfurt in Germany because a suspicious package was leaking a strange smell thought to be some sort of gas. According to German broadcaster Bayerischer Redfunk, 60 postal workers had to be evacuated from the building. Twelve of them had to be treated for nausea, including six who had to be hospitalized.
— The title of the article gives it away...read more in German Post Office Evacuated Due To Durian Fruit Odor at International Business Times.
The daily lemming
Issue 9 of Nez is out, and so is Vetiver in Perfumery: "Originating in India and cultivated principally in Haiti, vetiver is a topical grass whose tangled roots contain a fragrant essence that can be extracted via steam distillation. At once fresh, citrusy, vegetal, woody and smoky; vetiver’s essential oil is a perfume all on its own. Though once emblematic of classic masculine perfumery, vetiver has long-since become a staple of the perfumer’s palette and lent its characteristic aroma to countless compositions for both men and women." 96 pages, $25 at Luckyscent (and Issue 9 is $29 for 160 pages, plus they still have Issues 3-8 in stock).
Je suis un sillage
Woman in pretty dress wanders about the Palais Garnier while Gaspard Ulliel talks about sillage.