Diptyque will launch Les Essences de Diptyque, a new collection of five fragrances inspired by ‘nature’s overlooked wonders’: Bois Corsé, Corail Oscuro, Lilyphéa, Lunamaris and Rose Roche…
Tuesday scent of the day 8/27
It’s Tuesday and National Pots de Creme Day. Birthdays today: Man Ray, Lester Young, Ira Levin, William Least Heat-Moon. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Hermès Eau Claire des Merveilles. Tea the moment is Mariage Frères Chandernagor.
Reminder: on 8/30, for the start of Labor Day Weekend in the US, wear the fragrance you think you probably wore the most — or wish you’d worn the most — for summer 2024…
It doesn’t really create a collaborative spirit
“They still make perfumers compete against each other, even within the same house,” says Dawn Goldworm, an olfactive expert who has been friends with Kurkdjian for over 20 years. “So at Firmenich, you have a lot of perfumers competing against each other on projects,” she explains, referring to the leading French firm, “but they’re also competing against perfumers at Givaudan, International Flavors & Fragrances, and Takasago. It doesn’t really create a collaborative spirit.”
— Read more in How Perfumer Francis Kurkdjian Learned to Bottle the Zeitgeist at Robb Report.
Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ the purgatory basket, again
It’s been a couple years since we’ve done a poll about indecision, so three questions about your version of what I call the purgatory basket, where you would keep perfumes (presumably samples or decants, but possibly full bottles) that are not love at first sight but that you are not quite ready to give up on. (For examples, see here and here.)
1. What’s the latest fragrance you tried, and weren’t sure about but weren’t ready to give up on just yet?
2. Name a fragrance you now love, but that initially spent quite some time in your purgatory basket.
3. Name a fragrance you gave up on, but that you keep thinking about and wondering if you should get another sample.
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
