Time is flying by…it’s almost Thanksgiving. Before things get too busy, we’re working on a listening list to carry you through the winter, in case you don’t feel like reading or watching tv. Tell us about any great audio content you’ve discovered: podcasts, audio books, even new music or streaming radio stations.
And of course, tell us what perfume you’re wearing today, and/or what fragrance we should be wearing when we listen to your content.
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
Indie natural line Aftelier has launched Joie de Vert, a new green fragrance…
You need a vat of Chanel No. 5? And of course you want the vat done up by Baccarat. 2021 ml of extrait in a lambskin coffret with a crystal wand, €28,000. 55 bottles were made, so hop to it.
His desk is precisely as you’d expect – handwritten notes and branches of blotters jut out from short metal stands, surrounded by boxes brimming with collections of indecipherably labelled small glass bottles. In each, he explains, is an ongoing experiment; constantly evolving concoctions which, he hopes, will one day lead him to another perfect perfume.
— Perfumer Olivier Polge of Chanel talks to The Guardian. Read more in Smell of success: How Chanel No 5 gained a sprinkling of stardust.
