From Mistral, Rose de Grasse bar soap: "Rich in organic olive oil and shea butter our authentic triple-milled soap in hand-painted watercolor designs bring the colors and scents of Provence into your home. Each May the prized Rosa Centifolia bushes bloom with vibrant colors and perfume the hillsides of Grasse with the unmistakable scent of Rose." $12 for 200g at Mistral Soap.
Guerlain has launched Florabloom and Florabloom Forte, new fresh floral fragrances in the Aqua Allegoria series…
Lancôme has launched La Vie Est Belle Rose Extraordinaire, a new flanker to 2012’s La Vie Est Belle…
It’s Hump Day and the last day of January, plus National Backward Day. Birthdays: Alan Lomax, Jackie Robinson. RIP Chita Rivera. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m commando for a couple appointments this morning. I’ll report my fragrance later in the day.
Reminder: 2/2 is Groundhog Day…
But the juice of 1947, of course, does not resonate in 2024—and it’s for this reason Francis says that the original Miss Dior is not for sale today. “You don’t want to wear clothes from 1947, and it’s the same for perfume. No one wants to smell like their grandmother, but [in the same as fashion] you can keep the ideas, philosophy or structure and reshape it to make it more relevant.”
— Read more in Francis Kurkdjian just reinvented Miss Dior—and I was one of the first to smell the new perfume at Marie Claire.