While sniffing via a screen is a technology yet to be cracked, the brick-and-mortar fragrance business is booming: 75 percent of fragrance sales in the U.S. happen in stores. And over the past year, it’s seemed as if every other boutique opening in the city is a perfumer or a home-fragrance shop. [...] Naked Ghosts (66 Greenwich Ave.), which opened in the summer, offers a tight selection of niche eaux (such as Annindriya and Chester Gibs’s Walk With Me) chosen by store co-founder Christophe Laudamiel, a perfumer whose own fragrances are for sale.
— Read more in What’s That Smell? 11 New Fragrance Stores Open in New York magazine.
It’s time for me to head to my hometown ofNYC to explore!!
Would be fun!
FWIW, there’s a birthday sale going on at Indigo and there’s at least one item that is IN-STORE only. WTH(eck) [get your mind out of the gutter]! Reminds me of the saying in New Orleans which ends with something like “… and everywhere else is Cleveland”. Of course, no offense to those who love in Cleveland.
Thanks!