Happy Almost-Friday and happy National Dessert Day! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in vintage Miss Dior for Bertie’s Aunt Dahlia. (She was played by several actresses over the course of the television series. None of them looked quite like my image of Aunt Dahlia, but Brenda Bruce was closest.)
Reminder: 10/15 is Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse‘s birthday…
French-lavender hand cream that I used to massage my grandmother’s hands with. When she was sick, I would go into her room and massage her hands and feet with this French-lavender cream that we purchased from a gift shop in her town. She passed away when I was 10, and it was such an intense time for me emotionally as a young girl. It was my first time experiencing loss, and I loved her so much, so lavender will forever be her scent.
— Sara Panton of home fragrance brand Vitruvi on her first scent memory. Read more in For Sara Panton, Happiness Smells Like Salty Hair and Wet Dog at The Cut.
A spot for Louis Vuitton Les Extraits Collection.
Another day, another collector bottle. Here we have 75 ml of Cartier Baiser Volé Eau de Parfum, in a (lovely) bottle celebrating the fragrance's 10 year anniversary. $138 at Saks Fifth Avenue.
Les Parfums de Rosine has launched Bulle de Rose, a new powdery floral fragrance for women…