The Jean Paul Gaultier Pride Editions for 2024, with decorations inspired by Keith Haring's Once Upon a Time mural. The two bottles (Classique and Le Male) contain the same unisex woody floral citrus fragrance as the 2023 editions. Available now at David Jones in Australia.
Philosophy has launched Radiant Grace, a new fragrance in their popular Grace series…
Anok Yai for Mugler Alien Hypersense.
It’s Friday and National Banana Bread Day! Birthdays: Samuel Pepys, W. E. B. Du Bois. Our community project for today: we’re off to New Zealand! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in New Zealand, or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to New Zealand, or that features a local ingredient, or ?
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.
The readers of Rough Guides voted New Zealand the most beautiful country in the world in 2023 (although it came in second to Indonesia in 2022 by the UK’s Money). All the gorgeous greenery and water made me thing of Diptyque’s L’Ombre dans L’Eau, so that’s my pick, and it’s just a shame I can’t wear it on the banks of the Manawatu River. (And yes, I did blow some time this week looking at real estate listings…)
Onstage, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet practiced his solo part in “Prometheus,” which the San Francisco Symphony will perform March 1 through 3, while the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen listened attentively to the wooden vortexes as they were being tested; the sound they made while emitting smoke, he noticed, was nearly a G.
Mathilde Laurent, Cartier’s longtime perfumer, who had designed the scents, double-checked notes on her iPad. For this day’s test, without the orchestra, she wanted to be sure the diffusers were timed to match the music. So they were going to play a recording overhead.
— Read more in Smell the Music: Inviting a Perfumer Into the Concert Hall at The New York Times.