A holiday spot from Penhaligon's.
Friday scent of the day 11/29
Happy Friday and happy Native American Heritage Day! It’s also National Square Dancing Day. Birthdays: Louisa May Alcott, Clive Staples Lewis, Madeleine L’Engle and Chadwick Boseman. Our community project for today: pick your Black Friday poison…wear the last fragrance you bought, wear a cheap thrill, or wear a fragrance you love but refuse to buy in a full size because it’s too expensive. (We’ve done this project several times.)
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’m in a fragrance I refused to buy because it was too expensive when I tried it back in 2008…Monocle + Comme des Garçons Scent One: Hinoki. It is currently $120 for 50 ml, which all these years and industry changes later, seems comically cheap…
Energy amplification
When Yasmin Sewell launched fragrance brand Vyrao in 2021, she wasn’t sure it would find a wide audience. All of its seven scents promise a particular type of “energy amplification”, with a crystal inside the bottle charged by the brand’s “master energist” Louise Mita. “I was worried it would alienate too many people who were just not into the subject, even though I had the sense the world was shifting,” recalls Sewell.
That doubt has faded in the face of growing consumer interest and a wave of entrants to the spiritual fragrance market.
— Read more in Is spirituality fragrance’s next gold mine? at Vogue Business.
Happy Thanksgiving 2024 ~ open thread
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone who is celebrating today!
Whether you’re celebrating or not, feel free to talk about anything you like: what fragrance you’re wearing today, what perfume you’re especially thankful for, what you’re going to cook or eat today…whatever you like, so long as it doesn’t conflict with our comment policy…
The daily lemming
From the Via Mercato collection at Pré de Provence, Orange Gingersnap hand soap, "...where the zesty brightness of orange mingles with the spicy warmth of cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom, rounded off with a hint of creamy vanilla bean". $19.99 for 250 ml at Pré de Provence.