Houbigant Paris has launched Collection Les Ambres, a new trio of fragrances: Ambre Rubis, Rose du Désert and Vanille Impériale…
The entrance to the niche fragrance rabbit hole
It simply surprised me because the scent was not what I expected from common hotel toiletries. Instead of smelling typically clean and fresh, it's rich, floral, and complex. I even questioned whether it was too feminine to wear outdoors. Little did I know that was the entrance to the niche fragrance rabbit hole.
— Victor Wong of indie brand Zoologist on Le Labo Rose 31. Read more in Discussing Creatures and Creativity with Zoologist’s Victor Wong at BeautyMatters.
Roberto Cavalli Sweet Ferocious ~ new fragrance
Roberto Cavalli has launched Sweet Ferocious, a new fragrance for women in the brand’s signature line. It is the brand’s first launch under new licensing arrangements with InterParfums…
Friday scent of the day 9/20
It’s Friday, plus National Pepperoni Pizza Day and Sophia Loren’s birthday. Our community project for today: we’re off to Mainland Southeast Asia! Wear a perfume that is named for a place in Mainland Southeast Asia (we’ll include Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and West Malaysia), or that reminds you of a (real or imaginary) trip to to the region, 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.
Points for me, in Diptyque Do Son…
A certain muddling of the stories
[Francis] Kurkdjian believes that there’s been a certain muddling of the stories behind Dior perfumes as they’ve been reformulated to keep up with regulatory changes—a game of olfactory telephone. “There are too many gossips, too much marketing over the years,” he told me. When pitching himself for the job at Dior, he submitted a memo outlining his vision for making over the house’s major scents one by one, and quoted a line attributed to Christian Dior: “Respect tradition and dare to be insolent because one cannot go without the other.”
— Read more in The French Perfumer Behind the Internet’s Favorite Fragrance at The New Yorker.