Our tenth annual ‘stepping back’ poll: can this group of shameless enablers help each other not buy perfume? Let’s find out.
Name a perfume you’ve been itching to buy but suspect you might not need, and tell us why you think it might not really be a good use of your money. Maybe everyone will talk you out of it. Or, maybe not so much.
If you participated in this poll last year, tell us if you ended up buying the fragrance anyway…
Narciso Rodriguez has launched For Her Musc Noir Rose, a new fragrance for women. Musc Noir Rose is a flanker to 2021’s Musc Noir, which was a variation on the original Narciso Rodriguez For Her scent…
One night last week, I sat in my kitchen with my eyes closed, inhaling the rich, earthy scent of tomatoes. I felt transported: I was in an Italian garden, sun-dappled leaves swaying as I picked the plump, ripe fruit for a late pasta dinner with my large and beautiful family. I was, in essence, one of the puppets from the Dolmio adverts. But the smell wasn’t coming from a tomato. It was coming from a candle.
[...] There is something in the air at the moment, and it’s not just vine tomato candles: ever more eclectic smells – from the uplifting to the downright bizarre – have been making their way into perfume and candles.
— Read more in Scents and sensibility: what’s behind the rise of extreme smells? at the Guardian.
From Penhaligon's, Halfeti soap: "It’s said that love’s gifts cannot be given. Halfeti begs to differ. Fall for the heady scent of spiced rose, oud and amber with this scented bath soap – triple-milled for an exquisitely rich lather." £24 for 150g at Penhaligon's UK.
Molton Brown will launch Delicious Rhubarb & Rose, a new fragrance. (The brand already has a bath, body and home collection in this scent…)