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An aroma that will change from week to week

Posted by Robin on 11 October 2021 Leave a Comment

The hall will also be filled with another, less tangible, suggestion of microbial life: an aroma that will change from week to week, conjuring the fragrant history of the Bankside area around the museum, from the Precambrian and late Jurassic eras to the Machine Age. Among the scent profiles Yi has created are those that represent more noxious periods in London history, including the smells of cholera and the bubonic plague.

— Artist Anicka Yi's Turbine Hall takeover starts tomorrow (and runs through mid-January) at the Tate Modern in London. Read more in The Artistic Aromas of Anicka Yi at The New York Times.

Lazy weekend poll ~ fall reading list, edition 3

Posted by Robin on 9 October 2021 194 Comments

Last call…the freebiemeet is open all day Saturday! The splitmeet will start on the 23rd.

Meanwhile, please recommend a great book to add to our fall reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.

Or, as always, just talk about something else…

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Roberto Cavalli Velour Saffron & Wild Incense ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 9 October 2021 2 Comments

Roberto Cavalli has launched Velour Saffron and Wild Incense, two new fragrances joining the Roberto Cavalli Gold Collection. Both scents were developed by perfumer Benoist Lapouza…

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Find your moment, part 2

Posted by Robin on 9 October 2021 Leave a Comment

A spot for Elizabeth Arden White Tea Ginger Lily.

Kurkdjian is brimming with excitement

Posted by Robin on 9 October 2021 2 Comments

For his part, Kurkdjian is brimming with excitement over his new post at Dior. “It’s a brand that even at 52 makes me dream,” he said during an interview during which he extolled Demachy for his extraordinary career.

Kurkdjian has had links with Dior spanning his entire life. The Armenian church his parents attended and grandparents married in is on a street parallel to Avenue Montaigne, the site of Dior’s flagship in Paris.

“Even in my mother’s womb, I passed in front of the Dior windows,” said the perfumer, who also has an in-depth knowledge of Avenue Montaigne, recalling the time when it was lined with couture boutiques for the likes of Celine, Nina Ricci, Emanuel Ungaro and Guy Laroche.

— Francis Kurkdjian will succeed François Demachy as  perfume creation director at Dior later this month. He will also continue to maintain Maison Francis Kurkdjian. Read more in EXCLUSIVE: Dior Names Francis Kurkdjian Perfume Creation Director at WWD via Yahoo! Life.

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