Noel Berry (and Marco, the motorboat driver) at Lake Como, for the new Trussardi Eau de Parfum.
Trussardi by Trussardi ~ new fragrance

Italian brand Trussardi has launched Trussardi Eau de Parfum, a new floral chypre fragrance for women…
Friday scent of the day 5/7

It’s “I really shouldn’t have” Friday! Our community project for today: wear a fragrance you shouldn’t have bought, you shouldn’t wear, or shouldn’t ? Thanks go to Katrina for the idea, and I hope I didn’t completely mangle her original concept.
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’m in Hermès Jour D’Hermès. I really shouldn’t have bought a 50 ml bottle the same day I smelled it. I do like it, very much, and every time I wear it I’m reminded that I ought to wear it more often. But I don’t reach for it (or really, any one perfume) often enough to justify more than a 15 ml travel size, and of course just 2 years later they came out with the Jour D’Hermès Absolu, which would have been my preference…
The perfume from purple blossoms
Olivia Schneider pulled down her mask and inhaled the perfume from purple blossoms, their sweetness casting the engineer back to her Wisconsin kick-the-can childhood and her mother clipping lilacs for the dinner table.
Last spring, the simple act would’ve flouted signs imposing pandemic rules for the Harvard-owned Arnold Arboretum’s more than 400 lilac bushes. “Please enjoy the lilacs from a distance,” they read, warning that they should be treated “like any other surface that can spread Covid-19.”
— Read more in A Sign of Post-Pandemic Spring: Sniffing Mother’s Day Lilacs at Bloomberg.
Byredo Open Sky ~ new fragrance

Niche line Byredo has launched Open Sky, a new limited edition unisex fragrance…