Louis Vuitton will launch On the Beach, a new fragrance, in April…
Tuesday scent of the day 3/16
It’s Tuesday, the second day of National Introverts Week, and Jerry Jeff Walker’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Parfums de Nicolaï Vie de Château, in the original Eau Fraîche version, from a terribly old sample. It smells fantastic. Tea at the moment is a mix of Kusmi Tsarevna and Halmari Estate Assam from Upton.
Reminder: 3/19 will be Foody Friday…
Some paintings instantly evoke a scent
A series of short videos for the Fleeting: Scents in Colour exhibit, due to open at the Mauritshuis in The Hague as soon as it is safe for the museum to open.
A dirty gym bag full of spoiled fish
The other scent… er, odor… sent out was one approximating a foul-smelling canal. Indeed, the spritzer left this reporter with the impression of a dirty gym bag full of spoiled fish.
— Remember the Fleeting: Scents in Colour exhibit, opening (hopefully) at the Mauritshuis in The Hague later this year? (We posted about it here and here.) They've got the scent kits almost ready to ship, and they've sent out two of the fragrances to journalists. Read more in Ever Wonder What a 17th-Century Dutch Canal Smells Like? No? Well a New Show Invites You to Sniff the Odors of Art History Anyway at ArtNet.
Hermes H24 ~ fragrance review
I’ve been working from home over a year now, hiding from COVID-19. During that time, several bottles of perfume have joined the family but not one stitch of new clothing has taken up residence in my closets or dresser drawers. (I’ve not even had the chance to wear clothes I bought in anticipation of last summer.) When I saw the Hermès H24 fragrance ads, my eyes did not land on the H24 bottle but strayed to the H24 model’s jacket and shirts, in those beautiful, soft, calming colors of stone, sky and clouds. The clothes interested me more than another bottle of perfume, especially one in such a sporty, Lacoste-type bottle.
The transition at Hermès from house perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena to Christine Nagel has been a bumpy one for me. Since Nagel’s arrival and the debut of her perfumes, I’ve not bought one new Hermès fragrance…