The holiday video from Hermès.
Monday scent of the day 12/4
It’s another Monday, plus National Cookie Day. Birthdays: Rainer Maria Rilke, Jeff Bridges, Jay-Z. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m going to be traveling most of this week and don’t expect to accrue many community project points, so I’m banking one in advance today with Bvlgari Omnia, made by Spanish perfumer Alberto Morillas.
Reminder: on 12/8, we’re off to Spain…
That’s where making a fragrance becomes making a soup
That’s also why he’s not a fan of consumer testing. “It’s a tool, but it’s about how you use the results,” he says. “Some clients use the consumer testing to please everybody and they need to check all the boxes. And that’s where making a fragrance becomes making a soup. I’m always more in the niche world, and trying to do something different — I’m not doing it to please everybody.”
— Perfumer Jérôme Epinette, quoted in Inside the Mind of Beauty’s Most In-demand Perfumer at Women's Wear Daily.
Lazy weekend poll ~ open thread, early December 2023
It’s the first weekend in December, plus Saturday is National Fritters Day, the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery and Britney Spears’ birthday. Sunday is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
We’re marking everything with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, any plans you might have for the month of December, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Clinique Happy in Paradise ~ new fragrance
Clinique has launched Happy in Paradise, a new limited edition flanker to 1997’s Clinique Happy…