French niche house Serge Lutens has launched Poivre Noir, a new fragrance in the brand’s Collection Noire…
Friday scent of the day 8/12
It’s Friday, plus World Elephant Day and International Youth Day. Our community project for today: wear a fragrance with a magnolia note, if you have one.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m in Guerlain Cologne du 68, which does list magnolia among its 68 notes. I need to buy a magnolia soliflore one of these days…
Crowded
Breaking into the fragrance industry from the outside was basically impossible. No one’s looking to explain anything to you. It’s very European. It’s dominated by people who have trained in fragrance, so it’s hard to emulate another [brand]. A brand of our scale or our type didn’t exist that much [when we started]. I’m not saying it didn’t exist at all, but we were one of the first small-scale perfumers to do everything on our own. We knew [we had] something special there to start with. It wasn’t the most saturated market when we started nearly 14 years ago. It was different then. It’d be a lot harder today [to launch an indie fragrance brand]. Every facet of the beauty industry is more crowded today than it was 14 years ago.
— Kavi Moltz, quoted in D.S. & Durga founders on building their business: ‘There are no rules’ at Glossy.
The daily lemming
I don't know what I'd do with it, but I want some. From NYC's Enfleurage, Lilac Pomade: "Our lilac (Syringa vulgaris,) is grown, harvested and enfleuraged in upstate New York, and expertly blended into a delightful pommade, using organic candelilla wax and vitamin E. This is a mouth-watering, textural delight. So many of us grew up with lilac season, and their unmistakable fragrance punctuated our early springs. Lilac is one of those flowers that refuses to be distilled, refuses to allow solvents to extract her, and whose wonderful complexity is so difficult to synthesize. Enfleurage is the only reasonable way to extract her scent, and here it is in a gorgeous pomade that lives up to the most discerning expections." $38 at Enfleurage.
Regime des Fleurs Tears ~ new fragrance
Earlier this year, niche line Régime des Fleurs launched Tears, a new unisex fragrance…