Carven has launched Dans Ma Bulle de Fleurs, a new fruity floral fragrance for women. Dans Ma Bulle de Fleurs is a flanker to 2018’s Dans Ma Bulle…
Friday scent of the day 5/1
Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit and happy May Day! Our community project for today: wear the fragrance that sent you down the rabbit hole.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’ve got a dab of vintage Diorissimo on one hand, because May Day, but the rest of me is sporting good old Diptyque Philosykos. It’s hard to identify a single perfume that sent me down the rabbit hole, but Philosykos was my first complete turnaround. I really didn’t like it the first time I smelled it, or at least, I didn’t think it smelled like an appropriate personal perfume, for me or anyone. After a bit more niche perfume exposure, I “got” it, and that experience changed my attitude towards perfume…
Bunny & bonsai
First up, a bunny at the Portland Japanese Garden. Then below the jump, Kevin Bielicki of Longwood Gardens demonstrates how to start a bonsai from nursery stock (about 11 minutes).
The daily lemming
Limited edition spring colors for five Diptyque candles: Freesia, Mimosa, Iris, Rosa Geranium and Choisya. $74 each for 190g.
Caerhays x 5
Caerhays Castle in Cornwall, normally open from February to June, has the largest collection of magnolias in the UK, and impressive collections of other flowering trees and shrubs as well. The current owner, Charles Williams, appears in a number of these videos; he also owns Burncoose Nurseries. We start with a 2014 video for an introduction to Caerhays and Burncoose, followed by (below the jump), drone footage of the magnolias from March of this year (3 1/2 minutes). Then from May of last year, Mr. Williams talks about the scented rhododendrons at Caerhays (about 5 minutes), followed by a more general tour from this week of the azaleas and rhododendrons blooming in the garden (7 minutes), and then a late April tour of three magnolias (4 minutes).