It’s Monday and International Chess Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
We are on day 3 of excessive heat warnings. I’m running late, and a bit groggy, and my computer is acting up: not a happy Monday combination! I’m in Thierry Mugler Cologne.
Reminder: on 7/24, wear a perfume by Zoologist, Xerjoff, Worth Paris or Yosh if you have one…
Saturday is Mandela Day, and Sunday is Ice Cream Day. RIP John Lewis.
We’re soldiering on with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance you’ve got in an online-shopping cart right now, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
One of the less well-known things about Andy Warhol was his obsession with fragrance. He is said to have had a collection that he called his “permanent smell collection,” which was made up of hundreds of bottles, many half-used. Halston cologne, Penhaligon’s Blenheim Bouquet eau de toilette, Braggi cologne, Ma Griffe by Carven, Paris by Yves Saint Laurent, and Devin cologne by Aramis are a few he collected.
[...] Warhol began amassing his collection of semi-used perfumes in the early 1960s— “Before that, the smells in my life were all just whatever happened to hit my nose by chance,” he wrote. “But then I realized I had to have a kind of smell museum so certain smells wouldn’t get lost forever.”
— Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian, in a 2018 interview with Rain magazine. Read more in Francis Kurkdjian, Hitting the Right Notes.
Spots for Juliette Has A Gun Vanilla Vibes and (below the jump) Lipstick Fever.
From Clarins, limited edition Dry Body Oils in Wonder Fig, Tonic Citrus and Sweet Neroli, $35 each for 100 ml, and each of those scents can also be found in a bunch of other products, including hand cream, foaming shower gel, body lotion, room spray and candles. At Clarins.