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2022 / Browsing by date: August 2022

The fragrance effect

Posted by Robin on 25 August 2022 2 Comments

First there was the lipstick effect. Now Coty Inc.’s chief executive officer Sue Nabi is all about the fragrance effect.

Despite recession fears and sky-high inflation, Coty’s prestige fragrances have been flying off the shelves, with particularly strong performances from Hugo Boss, Burberry, Chloé, Calvin Klein and Gucci Beauty, which delivered 20 percent growth in the fourth quarter and helped the overall prestige sector to grow of 16 per cent year-over-year, to $662.8 million.

— Read more in Forget the Lipstick Effect, It’s the Fragrance Effect at Coty at Women's Wear Daily.

The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 24 August 2022 Leave a Comment

Spendy little home fragrance items from luxury tableware brand Ginori 1735. At left, the Il Letterato Lavander Designer candelabra ("a porcelain sculpture in the form of a bust. The upper part is adorned with a hat-like cylindrical container, designed to carefully protect the candle and its wisdom"), packaged with six 40g Purple Hill (floral) scented candles, $410. At right, the Cameo incense burner La Gazelle d'Or ("sauntering in the shady gardens of La Gazelle d’Or, one chances upon an incense holder: an oval cameo with the serene gaze of a classical face outlined in relief"), incense sold separately, $340.

One of these days, part 10

Posted by Robin on 24 August 2022 Leave a Comment

Boots made for walking, and so on and so forth, for the 2022 version of Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Eau de Parfum Intense.

Guerlain La Petite Robe Noire Intense 2022 ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 24 August 2022 4 Comments

Guerlain has introduced La Petite Robe Noire Intense, a new fragrance for women. La Petite Robe Noire Intense is a flanker to the 2012 version of La Petite Robe Noire, and is not to be confused with the 2016 version of La Petite Robe Noire Intense (in a blue bottle)…

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Wednesday scent of the day 8/24

Posted by Robin on 24 August 2022 154 Comments

It’s Wednesday, plus National Peach Pie Day, National Waffle Day, International Strange Music Day and Pluto Demoted Day. Literary birthdays: Max Beerbohm, Jean Rhys, Jorge Luis Borges, A.S. Byatt, Paulo Coelho de Souza, Oscar Hijuelos. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Paul Smith Story, which would be the perfect introductory vetiver if it was still in production.

Reminder: on 8/26 we’re doing It’s difficult, part 1…

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