L’Artisan Parfumeur has launched 33 Abyssae, a new woody aromatic addition to the La Botanique collection (formerly known as Natura Fabularis). As with the others in the series, 33 Abyssae was developed by perfumer Daphné Bugey, and the number represents the number of trials before the final formula…
Carthusia has expanded the A’mmare line with bath products and travel accessories. There are travel bags and beach towels, sun screen, and a bunch of body products including this nicely packaged shower oil: "In a blue horizon, bergamot, sunny and bright, meets aromatic, slightly pungent rosemary. Salt crystallize on the skin, a refreshing plunge leaves room to what is new. Mint Leaves and its green tender smoothness and a hidden energy all around. Now the vision is fulfilled, the horizon complete. Cedarwood and Guaiac, a precious forest, protect Patchouly and Musk incoming gifts from faraway lands." $39.60 at 50ml.
Italian niche line Acqua di Parma will launch Magnolia Infinita, a new addition to the Signatures of the Sun collection…
It’s Monday and the 4th of July. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Boy Chanel, one step away from Chanel No. 5.
Reminder: on 7/8, for Kevin Bacon’s birthday, we’re doing a variation on six degrees of separation…
But there are many nasal complexities to negotiate – as [Cecilia] Bembibre points out: “It is really hard to get the information you need to bring back smells.” Her own chemical work has reproduced the scent of a 1750s potpourri at Knole – the ancestral home of the Sackville-West family in Kent – a description of which appears in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.
She has also reproduced the smell of the library at St Paul’s Cathedral in London by extracting detectable elements from the air in 2017, before it was refurbished. She then invited a specialist perfumer, Sarah McCartney, to attempt to create the same olfactory experience based only on her instincts about its components.
— Read more in A nose for history: academics recreate lost smells from the past at The Guardian.