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2023 / Browsing by date: June 2023

Friday scent of the day 6/23

Posted by Robin on 23 June 2023 176 Comments

It’s Friday, plus United Nations Public Service Day. (Plus, a few birthdays: Alan Turing, June Carter Cash, Frances McDormand.) It’s also National Let It Go Day. Our community project for today: wear a perfume that works in the way the day is intended…that is, that helps you let go of negative feelings from the past. OR, wear a perfume you’ve been hoarding, OR, thunk (use up) a bottle or sample, OR, come up with some other creative take on the theme of letting go. 

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 giving myself bonus points. On one arm, I’m wearing Gobin-Daudé Sous Le Buis, a perfume I adored, waited to buy at half price when the brand went out of business, then hoarded too long: it really does not smell so great anymore and I am throwing it out right now. On the other arm I’ve got Gobin-Daudé Sève Exquise, which is no longer in pristine condition but it does still smell lovely after it settles…I need to stop “saving it” and wear it more often…

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Perfume took my life like a tsunami

Posted by Robin on 23 June 2023 Leave a Comment

“I started nose school (perfumery school) when I was 22… the first day I started smelling raw materials, I was hooked. Perfume took my life like a tsunami,” he shares enthusiastically.

For Hennessy, learning about perfume clicked naturally. He muses: “There was a feeling of excitement… and comfort [when it came to perfume]. I was like an addict, I wanted more and more. Whenever I would see Jacques (his mentor, Jacques Cavallier) in the lab, I would ask him: “Give me more. Give me more.” I was so hungry to learn.”

— Kilian Hennessy, quoted in Kilian Hennessy on the way perfumery has guided his career and life at Tatler Asia.

The not-quite-daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 22 June 2023 10 Comments

Daisy Drops, from Marc Jacobs: "Take your Daisy with you wherever you go with these cute and mini single-dose fragrance capsules. This travel-friendly perfume fits conveniently in your hand, bag or pocket, for effortless top-ups on the go. Featuring a halo of the signature Daisy icons, each aluminium tin is sustainable and holds 30 capsules of Daisy Drops Signature...Each adorable, tiny capsule contains the perfect dose of the fragrance, which has a gel-like composition. Simply take a capsule and twist, squeeze and apply: anytime, anywhere." Available in Daisy, Daisy Eau So Fresh and Daisy Love, £28 at Boots in the UK (but currently on mark down to £22.40).

4711 Acqua Colonia Peony & Sandalwood ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 22 June 2023 4 Comments

4711 has launched Peony & Sandalwood, a new fragrance in the brand’s Acqua Colonia range…

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Thursday scent of the day 6/22

Posted by Robin on 22 June 2023 97 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday and happy World Rainforest Day! It’s also Windrush Day and Onion Ring Day. Birthdays: Katherine Dunham, Bill Blass, Prunella Scales, Kris Kristofferson, Ed Bradley, Octavia E. Butler, Todd Rundgren, Meryl Streep, Freddie Prinze. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Diptyque L’Ombre dans L’Eau, because Tea Thyme mentioned Eau Rose yesterday. I am not letting this one go.

Reminder: 6/23 is National Let It Go Day… 

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