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Friday scent of the day 8/21

Posted by Robin on 21 August 2020 411 Comments

Happy Captured Unicorn Friday! Our community project for today: wear a perfume that you thought would be impossible to get, but you managed it. If you have not yet captured a unicorn, wear anything you like and tell us about the unicorn you’d like to catch. Thanks go to Undina for the suggestion.

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.

After reading everyone’s stories this week, I’m not sure I really have a unicorn…so I am wearing the fragrance that I would consider worth the effort to try to capture if I did not have it through no real effort of my own: vintage Diorissimo in the houndstooth bottle.

Reminder: 8/28 will be Dealer’s Choice, edition 4…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 20 August 2020 19 Comments

Just in case you've got an extra €10,000 laying around, here for your consideration is the (1 liter!) 100th anniversary edition of Guerlain Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat, done up by artist Anne Brun, with French native plants gilded in palladium. 29 were made, and due to launch in October — I'll take two!

Laura Biagiotti Forever Touche d’Argent ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 20 August 2020 Leave a Comment

Laura Biagiotti has launched Forever Touche d’Argent, a new flanker to 2019’s Forever…

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Thursday scent of the day 8/20

Posted by Robin on 20 August 2020 315 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also National Lemonade Day and World Mosquito Day. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Gobin Daudé Sève Exquise, from a bottle that is not quite in perfect condition. I don’t know that it is really a unicorn, but I wouldn’t own it if I hadn’t found it half price at Takashimaya in New York. Now Gobin Daudé and Takashimaya are both gone.

Reminder: 8/21 will be Captured Unicorn Friday…

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The odour of the “clean” smelling detergent

Posted by Robin on 20 August 2020 2 Comments

That makes enduring the hauteur of his latest client, professional “nose” or fragrance designer Mademoiselle Anne Walberg (Emmanuelle Devos), all the more challenging given she expects him to not only drive and carry her luggage, but also help her change sheets at hotels because she can’t stand the odour of the “clean” smelling detergent they’ve used, and take notes for her while she analyses the smell of a cave that needs to be copied for a client.

— From a review of the 2019 French movie Les Parfums. Read more in Perfumes review – admirably refreshing French comedy-drama at The Guardian, or see the trailer below the jump…

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