The room dedicated to No5 – [Thomas du Pré de Saint Maur of Chanel's] personal favourite, he tells us – features Andy Warhol artwork that’s never before been shown to the public, as well as an interactive VR experience where you take on the role of perfumer Ernest Beaux in 1921, presenting Gabrielle Chanel with samples of what became the world’s most iconic perfume.
— Read more in A spectacular new fragrance exhibition, Le Grand Numéro de Chanel, opens in Paris at Harper's Bazaar.
I am awfully late with this one unless you have a local gift store that carries Thymes (or unless you want to watch for a post-holiday sale), but this year they've done their popular Frasier Fir fragrance in scented gift wrap ($36 for 2 rolls), scented gift tags ($9 for ) and scented tissue paper (10 sheets for $9.99). At Thymes.
Maison Margiela will launch On A Date (Provence 2014), a new fragrance joining the Replica series…
Rabbit + horse, in the (perfume-free) holiday video from Hermès.
It’s Monday and the second night of Hanukkah. Also, National Oatmeal Muffin Day, and there are 12 more days to go for 2022. Birthdays: Italo Svevo, Carter G. Woodson, Jean Genet, Édith Piaf, Cicely Tyson, Richard Leakey. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Fendi Theorema to get in the holiday spirit.
Reminder: on 12/23, we’ll have a holiday open thread instead of a weekly project…