It’s Tuesday and National Cake Day. Birthdays: William Cowper, Mary Edwards Walker, Eugène Ionesco, Tina Turner, Marilynne Robinson, Elizabeth Blackburn. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m commando for a routine doctor appointment later this morning. Tea at the moment is Upton Meleng Estate Assam.
Reminder: on 11/29, pick your Black Friday poison…
On the levels below, clipped box, hydrangeas and laurel hedges add structure to beds full of scented flowers and shrubs including lily of the valley, peonies, lilac, osmanthus, sarcococca and tuberose “which smells divine and we use a lot in our scents, including our new release Bukhara”. A palette of pinks, purples and whites are cut with lots of glossy dark green. A winding gravel path disappears into a backdrop of trees, increasing the sense of space.
— Read more in Inside a perfumer’s paradise garden in Regent’s Park: Ormonde Jayne’s Linda Pilkington has brought the exotic scents she bottles to a theatrical London landscape at Financial Times.
It’s finally the weekend — and perhaps, the last bit of calm before the holiday storm. We’re relaxing with our standard open thread poll.
Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the fragrance that helps you keep calm despite various holiday hassles, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Gucci will launch new versions of Gucci Guilty Love Edition for Valentine’s Day 2025. Gucci Guilty Love Edition Pour Femme and Pour Homme are limited edition flankers to 2010’s Gucci Guilty and 2011’s Gucci Guilty Pour Homme respectively…
Search trends mirror what fragrance buyers are seeing behind the scenes: Across both Google and TikTok, searches for caramel perfume, gourmand fragrances, and vanilla scents have grown significantly over the past 12 months, according to Spate, the trend-forecasting agency, which predicts this positive growth will continue into the new year.
Perfumers, however, are cooking up new and exciting gourmands that go beyond traditional confectionery-inspired scents. Dubbed “neo” or “new” gourmands, these fragrances are still “edible” and delicious, but softer, more sophisticated, and more complex.
— Read more in 2025’s Biggest Fragrance Trends Are a Feast for the Senses at Allure.