Two possible (limited edition) lemmings for fans of Lancôme La Vie Est Belle: at left, an edition decorated by French artist Richard Orlinski (€92.50 for 50 ml at Breuninger in Germany). At right, the L'Éveil art edition, a refillable bottle decorated with a 'cloud' of recycled plastic fibers designed by a Parisian art school (€90.50 for 50 ml at Lancôme in France).
It’s Tuesday and National Chocolate Milk Day. Also, World Tourism Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
(Update: and I meant to say that it’s the last day of the swapmeet! Make those deals while you still can.)
I’m in Bruno Fazzolari Lampblack, because allo mentioned it last week. (I don’t know, does it warrant community project points?) Tea at the moment is an organic Ceylon from Idulgashinna Estate, via Upton, brewed with cacao husk and sprinkled with a shaving of nutmeg.
Reminder: on 9/30, we’re doing It’s difficult, part 2…
We had a conversation about a perfume by Guerlain called Nahema and about the rose accord in it. My theory was that it was made in a certain way, Dominique [Ropion]'s theory was that it was made in the different way. And then we sort of looked at each other like, oh, maybe we just take that rose accord and put a huge part of it in the product. It was the probably the biggest eureka moment in my thirty plus years in perfumery. It was amazing, to completely turn the thing around.
— Frédéric Malle on Portrait of a Lady. Read more in History of the Hero: Frédéric Malle Portrait of a Lady at Harper's Bazaar.
Cher will launch Decades, a new quartet of fragrances for women, later this month…*
Kenneth Cole has launched Mankind Rise, a new flanker to 2013’s Mankind…