British niche line Miller Harris has launched Rêverie de Bergamote, a new unisex fragrance…
Thursday scent of the day 5/27
It’s Almost-Friday. RIP Eric Carle (of The Very Hungry Caterpillar) and Lois Ehlert (of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom). What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in full-on summer vacation in Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Nil.
Reminder: 5/28 will be Summer Vacation Friday…
East of where
Orient comes from a word meaning ‘East’. The question is, East of where? In this case, France, where the perfume genre was born. This vague, ever exoticized, mysterious Orient includes the Persian Iran of the carpets, the Taj Mahal of Shalimar, and what is sometimes called the Far East. It’s far from France, at least. China and Iran have little in common except their East-ness from Europe.
— Tania Sanchez on the use of the term "oriental" to describe the fragrance family. Read more in Why Are We Still Describing Perfumes as Oriental? at Harper's Bazaar.
L’Occitane Verveine Cactus ~ new fragrance
L’Occitane has launched Verveine Cactus, a limited edition summer version of their popular unisex Verbena fragrance. (Verveine Agrumes, originally launched in 2006, is also returning this year…)
The (almost) daily lemming
Vacation sunscreen, developed for Poolside.FM by Carlos Huber of Arquiste and perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux. It is "is designed to capture and bottle the complete sunscreen experience from coconut, to pool water, to swimsuit lycra and everything in between" (other notes include banana, orange blossom and vanilla). You can pre-order a 100 ml tube now at Vacation for $20, or skip the SPF and just buy 30 ml of the Eau de Toilette for $60, or read more about the project at Fast Company.