It’s Tuesday, SWINTON’s birthday and Guy Fawkes Day. RIP Quincy Jones. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m staying calm in L’Artisan Parfumeur Dzongkha. Tea at the moment is Kusmi Tsarevna.
Reminder: on 11/8, for the 10th anniversary of our Friday projects, we’re repeating the first one we did…
Anya Taylor Joy, Deva Cassel + others, at Versailles for Dior Beauty's Holiday 2024 spot.
PSA: If you live in a daylight savings zone, don’t forget to change your clocks! That means it’s time for our eighth annual Fall Back poll.
As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s spring where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.
1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this fall?
2. You have to vote one perfume in your collection off the island. Which one will go first, and why?
3. It’s time for a (fantasy) fall getaway! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…
The splitmeet (episode 22) is open for business. PLEASE read the instructions! For people who would like to chat in addition to, or instead of, splitting, there will be a poll along shortly.
Don’t know what a bottle split is, or you know but you’ve never tried it? See here.
Please note that the intention of the splitmeet is to split newly purchased bottles of perfume, not to sell decants of fragrances already in your collection! Anyone can join a split, but only people with current, active reader accounts may host splits. Update: in other words, you cannot host a split if you have never commented here before the day the splitmeet opens…
Jimmy Choo has launched Jimmy Choo Man Extreme, a new aromatic amber fougere flanker to 2014’s Jimmy Choo Man…