The spot for Memo Abu Dhabi. Below the jump, perfumer Mylène Alran talks about the fragrance.
Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ 3 questions, International Day for Tolerance 2024
A repeat of a poll we did back in 2019 for the International Day for Tolerance, a UN observance dedicated to “strengthening tolerance by fostering mutual understanding among cultures and peoples”. This is a goal I wholeheartedly support, and I hope my poll on the subject of fragrance-related tolerance will not be taken as making light of a serious topic. This just isn’t the place for the discussion of serious topics, hence our handy dandy keep-the-peace comment policy.
1. Name a fragrance or a fragrance note (or a brand?) you are slowly learning to tolerate?
2. Name a fragrance you thought you hated, but loved when you smelled it on someone else?
3. Name a fragrance or a fragrance note you will probably never be able to tolerate?
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
Girls just wanna have fun
The holiday spot from Lancôme.
Majda Bekkali Tulaytulah Obscur ~ new fragrance
French niche line Majda Bekkali has launched Tulaytulah Obscur, a unisex flanker to 2016’s Tulaytulah…
The first American masterpiece
The first was Estée in 1968. It was Mrs. Lauder's first foray into perfume. Not Youth Dew. When Youth Dew came out in ’53, she was into skincare. That was her love, and she wanted a bath oil. That was a skin perfume. But her first real perfume that she was part of was Estée of ’68. It was also the first American perfume that made the French perfumers sit up and take notice. When you look at some of the interpretations of Estée, think of First by Van Cleef & Arpels, that kind of went there. And Roure Bertrand Dupont’s Geoffrey Webster, told me, for example, that he regarded Estée as the first American masterpiece.
— Michael Edwards, quoted in Liquid Emotion, Cultural Artifact: A Conversation with Fragrance Taxonomist Michael Edwards at BeautyMatter.