From the new Les Mains Hermès collection (24 nail polish colors, plus various other nail care products including nail files), the Complete Hand Care With White Mulberry Extract hand cream, featuring a Christine Nagel scent with sandalwood and arnica absolute. $185 (seriously, what were you expecting? turns out the Frédéric Malle Iris Hand Cream is a bargain) for 100 ml.
Jo Malone will launch Starlit Mandarin & Honey, a new limited edition fragrance for holiday 2021, next month. In addition, Orange Bitters and White Moss & Snowdrop will be reissued for the season…
It’s Monday, Coffee Ice Cream Day, Read a Book Day, and in the US, Labor Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I stayed up too late reading, overslept, and might not decide on a fragrance until at least one more cup of tea. I will report in later!
Reminder: 9/10 is Karl Lagerfeld’s birthday…
In the 17th century, Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, ordered the royal pharmacist, Francesco Redi, to devise a secret recipe for chocolate, at the time still a fairly recent arrival from the Americas. Redi’s elaborate instructions, revealed only after his death, demanded the layering of cacao and jasmine, with the flowers to be exchanged each day for fresh ones for 10 to 12 days running. The scented beans were then ground with additional flowers — vanilla orchids likewise imported from the New World — and sugar, cinnamon and ambergris, the waxy slough from the intestines of a sperm whale.
— Read more in The Ethereal Taste of Flowers at The New York Times.
This simple game is a repeat from 2016.
Name ONE favorite note.
Now tell us your absolute favorite fragrance that features that note, and then tell us about a scrubber (or just a fragrance you dislike) that features that note.
Mine: gardenia. Favorite: Strange Invisible Perfumes Lady Day (or Robert Piguet Fracas, but that one is probably more about tuberose). Scrubber: Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal…