Kicking off a week of cheap thrills you can have shipped from Target (and that appear to be in stock for shipping at the moment I am posting): SpaRoom Mist Hand Sanitizer. "Effective at eliminating more than 99.99% of many common harmful germs and bacteria in as little as 15 seconds...Pure and Natural Ingredients, Alcohol-Based and Made with 100% Pure Essential Oils for a refreshing, citrus aroma." $3.99 for 59 ml.
The gardens at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, followed by (below the jump) a look inside the conservatory, and then so long as we’re here, a look inside the house.
It’s Thomas Jefferson Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m not quite done with the Hermès drawer — this morning I went for Terre d’Hermès.
Reminder: on 4/17, we’re doing edition 5 of the Picture Challenge…
Some of the 27 ingredients Pliny described were hard to come by nearly 2,000 years later, and getting the proportions right was a challenge too – since in Pliny’s time raw materials weren’t distilled or synthesised, but crushed and burned. It took all [perfumer Jean] Kerléo’s skill, and a year of his life, to achieve a harmonious balance. But achieve it he did, and the hedonistic parlours of ancient Rome sprang to life in a haze of cinnamon, honey and wine.
— Read more in Is There Such A Formula As The Perfume Of God? And Other Fragrance Dreams From A Perfume Conservatory In Versailles (that would be the Osmothèque perfume museum) at Vogue UK.
Happy Easter, everyone! It’s time to fill your (fantasy) Easter basket:
1. You can pick one perfume, new or old: what is it?
2. And you can have one other scented product (a candle, a body lotion, anything): what is it?
3. Your favorite candy?
4. And any random present you’d like the Easter bunny to bring you.
(5. And an extra, pandemic-related question: what is the first thing you are looking forward to doing when this is all over?)…