Jo Malone has launched Hinoki & Cedarwood, a new fragrance in the brand’s Cologne Intense series…
Friday scent of the day 7/12
Happy Friday and happy Simplicity Day (aka Henry David Thoreau’s birthday). RIP Shelley Duvall. Our community project for today is Cologne part 2: wear a modern citrus-based cologne. (If it helps start you off, see 5 perfumes: (great) new wave summer colognes.)
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I went with Guerlain Cologne du 68…
It was the most sex-charged ad
The first time I ever heard of Dolce & Gabbana was on TV. I can still replay the voice-over at the end of the original Light Blue ad reading “Dolce & Gabbana, Light Blue”. It was the most sex-charged ad on TV in my young, impressionable mind, marked by the close-ups of Gandy, the fragrance equivalent to the Calvin Klein Underwear ads most gay men my age can identify as a key part of their coming of age. Light Blue, both the men’s and women’s versions, remains one of Dolce & Gabbana’s best-selling fragrances, and it’s inarguably the most well-known, and all thanks to the campaign.
— Read more about fragrance advertising in The business of thirst: Why fragrance can always bet on sex at Vogue Business.
Loewe Earth Elixir & 7 Elixir ~ new fragrances
Spanish house Loewe has launched Earth Elixir, a flanker to 2022’s Earth, and 7 Elixir, a flanker to 2010’s 7 de Loewe…
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The spot for the Jo Malone + Paddington Orange Marmalade fragrance.