We’re marking the last weekend in July with our usual open thread poll.
Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance you’d be wearing if it weren’t so hot out, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Spanish house Loewe has launched Solo Ella Elixir, a flanker to 2018’s Solo Loewe Ella, and Esencia Elixir, a flanker to 1988’s Esencia Loewe…
Jo Malone will launch English Pear & Sweet Pea, a “youthful, pastel-soft counterpart” to 2010’s English Pear & Freesia. Like English Pear & Freesia, English Pear & Sweet Pea was inspired by the John Keats poem Ode to Autumn…
It’s Friday, plus World Nature Conservation Day and National Milk Chocolate Day. Birthdays: Beatrix Potter, Marcel Duchamp, Malcolm Lowry, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Our community project for today: we’re off to Africa! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Africa, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to Africa, or that features an African ingredient, or ? Modified from a suggestion by JB.
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.
It’s too hot for anything else, so I’m ending the week how I started, in Hermès Un Jardin Sur Le Nil…
What is the impact of these measures? Armani claims that refilling reduces the use of glass by 38%, metal by 67% and plastic by 20%, and that buying a 50ml spray bottle and a 150ml bottle to refill reduces the carbon footprint of that fragrance by 64%. As this is company data, it is difficult to verify, although it would seem logical to think that refilling a bottle of perfume once should halve the carbon footprint of the packaging. However, this trend is still in the minority: according to Premium Beauty News, data from market consultancy NPD indicates that refillable fragrances account for only 6% of sales in Europe, and refills for 1%, although there was a 31% increase in 2022 compared to the previous year.
— Read more in Can the Planet Afford Luxury? at BBVA OpenMind.