From Marvis, the Tea Collection, with toothpaste in three flavors: Blossom Tea (black tea, exotic flowers, cherries and peaches); Creamy Matcha Tea (inspired by bubble tea from Taiwan) and Earl Grey Tea (bergamot and black tea). With fluoride, and available in 25 or 75 ml, or in a set of 3 x 25 ml. I don't think these are in the US yet, but you can order from Gents in Sweden, First in Fragrance in Germany, Fat Buddha in Scotland or Carter & Bond in England.
Happy Best Buy Friday! Our community project for today: wear your favorite fragrance purchase of 2021. If you didn’t buy anything this year, pick a favorite from a prior year.
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 didn’t buy much this year, but I finally have a little bottle of Tauer Perfumes Phi — Une Rose de Kandahar.
Reminder: 12/24 is Christmas Eve…
“It’s a flower that flourishes for seven to ten days a year, once a year. But to extract from it takes two to three months, so you don’t have enough biomass to make the essential oil to create a natural compound of lily of the valley to use in perfume,” says Dreyfus.
Perfumes have, therefore, only ever contained synthetic reconstructions of lily of the valley. In its vertical farm, Jungle can stagger the flourishing period of different plants, providing a flowering crop for a sustained period of time.
“The extracts have already been sold and they’re being tested as we speak in a perfume recipe,” Dreyfus says.
— That's Gilles Dreyfus, founder of French vertical farming company Jungle. Jungle is collaborating with Swiss fragrance house Firmenich to grow flowers for perfume. Read more in Vertical farming wants to save perfume from climate change at Sifted. (More: Firmenich puts faith in vertical farming with Jungle partnership at Cosmetics Business; Firmenich Announces Sustainable Innovation Partnership with Jungle: Launches World First with Muguet Firgood at PR Newswire.)
From Maison Francis Kurkdjian, Baccarat Rouge 540 in a spiffy holiday bottle (alas, with a price to match). "Each bottle requires eight hours of work to craft and is delicately hand-engraved in a Parisian workshop before being numbered, with only 300 in rotation. The legendary scent has established itself as one of the most iconic and influential creations of modern perfumery, composed of a distinctive wood accord exalted with enticing notes of fire, saffron, bitter almond and sensual animalic ambergris." 200 ml Extrait de Parfum, £830 at Harrods.
Vilhelm Parfumerie has launched London Funk, a new fragrance in the brand’s City Collection…