It’s Hump Day, National Librarian Day, World Voice Day and Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day. Birthdays: Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Anatole France, Charlie Chaplin, Kingsley Amis, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. What fragrance are you wearing?
For the UNESCO heritage site Cathedral, Alcázar and Archivo de Indias in Seville, of course I’m in L’Artisan Parfumeur Séville à l’Aube.
Reminder: 4/18 is the World Heritage Day / International Day for Monuments and Sites…
Is your fragrance extreme enough? Concentrated scents with language like extrait and intense are suddenly overtaking the market. “It makes me think about fashion now,” says Delphine Jelk, who won a Fragrance Foundation Award last year for her work with Guerlain. People will spend “more than a thousand dollars on a pair of sneakers or jacket” and style it with H&M or Zara, and “it’s a bit the same with perfume,” she says.
— Suddenly, really? Read more in How Extreme Is Your Fragrance? at Vogue.
Easter is coming! From Maison Bouche, the Easter Carrot Cake Dark Chocolate Bar: "Cinnamon and spices blend to flavor this bar with just a hint of cream cheese frosting!" $7.50 at Beautyhabit. (Other flavors: Wild Strawberry Botanical, Germany Chocolate Cake, Strawberry Rhubarb Shortcake, Salted Peanut Butter Pretzel, plus there are bunnies and eggs and whatnot.)
French niche line Parfums de Nicolaï has launched Muguet, a new limited edition soliflore fragrance. (You may remember that last year they released the limited edition Une Fleur en Mai…)
French fashion and luxury house Celine has launched Un Été Français, a new fragrance…