For a while, it seemed like the best compliment you could give a rose perfume was that it’s for people who don’t like rose. “This isn’t your grandmother’s rose perfume,” they promised. But as it turns out, grandma was onto something.
— Read more in Reinventing the Rose: The Scents Seducing a New Generation at InStyle.
PSA: Don’t forget to change your clocks tonight! (Unless you live in a happy place that doesn’t bother with daylight savings.)
Today: our annual spring forward poll. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s fall where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.
1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this spring?
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 (fantasy) Spring Break! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…
It’s rare that I even think about buying a new perfume these days — I have enough to last me and then some — but shower gels are another matter entirely. For one thing, even if I don’t end up loving them, and even if I have too many in my shower already, they will get used up before they spoil. Lush is a favorite, and they launch new products at a steady pace, so it’s not unusual for me to want, say, 4 or 5 or 6 of them at once. My trips to the mall are few and far between, though, and Lush products come and go relatively quickly, which explains why in a fit of panic I recently ordered 5 products unsniffed, lest they sell out before I get my hands on them.
Posh Chocolate Shower Gel was an obvious lemming, since I adore everything about the Posh Chocolate Body Wash except the packaging…
Givenchy has launched Les Jardins Particulier, with three new “intense fresh” fragrances joining La Collection Particulière: Désobéissant, L’Enfant Terrible and Tapageur…
French luxury footwear brand Christian Louboutin has launched Fétiche La Rose, a new amber floral addition to The Fétiche collection…