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2024 / Browsing by date: January 2024

Thursday scent of the day 1/4

Posted by Robin on 4 January 2024 143 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also the 11th day of Christmas (pipers piping) and World Braille Day. Birthdays: Sir Isaac Newton and Michael Stipe. What fragrance are you wearing?

I’m in Narciso Rodriguez Narciso Poudrée, just because I thought it matched the promotional image for Pantone Peach Fuzz shown above.

Reminder: on 1/5, wear a fragrance to match Peach Fuzz, Pantone’s color of the year for 2024…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 3 January 2024 4 Comments

A lemming for fans of Serge Lutens L’Orpheline: a new limited edition collector bottle. "An elegant puppeteer seems to be pulling the strings of a delicate and ethereal ballerina. The destiny of the graceful young girl – suspended precariously mid-air – lies between the spidery fingers of this tall, slender dandy, doomed as she is to her inevitable fate! And yet, is it so clear which one of the two is the executioner and which one the hapless victim? Looking closer, isn’t she also pulling the strings on her end, imperceptibly guiding the movements of the puppeteer’s emaciated fingers? L’orpheline, the fascinating incarnation of all our illusions! When reality surfaces from behind appearances, when all our certainties begin to come undone, she evaporates in a mysterious and perplexing cloud of incense." $185 for 50 ml at Serge Lutens.

Christian Dior New Look ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 3 January 2024 9 Comments

Christian Dior has launched New Look, the latest addition to their upscale La Collection Privée Christian Dior fragrance series…

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Red Hibiscus

Posted by Robin on 3 January 2024 Leave a Comment

A 15 second spot for Jo Malone Red Hibiscus, recently reissued in the Cologne Intense collection.

Narciso Rodriguez Musc Nude for Her ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 3 January 2024 2 Comments

Narciso Rodriguez has launched Musc Nude for Her, a new flanker to 2003’s Narciso Rodriguez for Her fragrance…

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