Tocca now has dry body oils ("Olio Sublime Profumato") in four fragrances: Stella, Florence, Giulietta and Cleopatra. $54 each for 100 ml, or there's a discover set with 1.5 ml vials of all four for $12, at Tocca.
Lanvin Mon Eclat ~ new fragrance
Lanvin will launch Mon Éclat (Éclat d’Arpège), a new flanker marking the 20th anniversary of 2002’s Éclat d’Arpège. Éclat d’Arpège was a flanker to 1927’s Lanvin Arpège…
Givenchy MMW ~ new perfume
Givenchy has launched MMW, a new addition to La Collection Particulière. MMW was named for Matthew M. Williams, Creative Director of Givenchy since 2020…
Thursday scent of the day 6/16
It’s Almost-Friday and Bloomsday. Birthdays today: Geronimo, Adam Smith. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Diptyque L’Ombre dans L’Eau for the John Everett Millais painting Ophelia, inspired by the character from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Reminder: 6/17 will be William Shakespeare Friday…
Continuing to explore the beginning of a revolution
A quarter of a century later [after the 1994 launch of CK One], market research company Statista found that 51 percent of new fragrance launches in 2018 were for fragrances that were marketed as “unisex”—compared to 17 percent in 2010. And we’re continuing to explore what it means to smell masculine, feminine, and all of the gender and sexuality expressions in between.
“We’re at the beginning of a revolution,” says Phil Riportella, co-founder of the online-only fragrance brand Snif. “The types of fragrances an individual enjoys don’t have to be tied to gender anymore, but instead are about what an individual likes.”
— Read more in Perfume is Finally Moving Away From Gender at Elle via Yahoo Life. (Or see here, here, here.)