It’s (Teapot) Tuesday and the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Also, Joseph Conrad’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Eau d’Italie Baume du Doge. Tea at the moment is Kusmi Troika.
Reminder: 12/6 will be Plus One Friday…
Tapping into the trend doesn’t necessarily mean entirely new formulations. Legacy brands like Lancôme and Dolce & Gabbana have been reworking their hero scents with a neo-gourmand twist. Lancôme’s Idôle Nectar, introduced in 2022, features notes of vanilla, caramel and popcorn, while Dolce & Gabbana launched an intense version of its Devotion fragrance this year that opens with a hazelnut pop (and is based in vanilla). Mugler recently expanded its decades-old Angel line with Fantasm, which blends the original with dollops of creamy piña colada.
— Read more in Fine Fragrances Are Getting a New Gourmet Twist at Business of Fashion.
Our seventeenth annual holiday gift poll. Here are the three questions:
What is the fragrance-related gift you’d most like to receive this year?
Let’s say you were going to ask for just one unsniffed fragrance this year, what would it be?
Are you giving any fragrance items for gifts this year, and if so, what?
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
Comptoir Sud Pacifique launched Vanilles Absolues, a new trio of fragrances in Extrait de Parfum: Avant Garde, Carte Blanche and Tropical Sunset…
From Old Spice, limited edition Snickerdudel antiperspirant: "...gourmet allure with scent of the delicious Sugar Cookies everyone loves", about $6.99 for 73g, or you can find it at Target packaged with 473 ml of the matching body wash for $9.99.