From KOBO, "Plant the Box" bar soap in Wild Tomato Vine: "Freshly crushed tomato leaf carries the essence while peppery spice creates an aromatic distillation. It finishes with the scent of freshly cut garden clippings. Plant the box and the seed-infused package will grow wild tomatoes." $15 for 198g at Smallflower. (These are also made in Lavender and Sunflower, and they have a whole series of "Plant the Box" candles too, I think they might have been a lemming here in the distant past.)
It’s Friday, Alexander Graham Bell Day and Piet Mondrian’s birthday. Our community project for today is edition 10 of the Picture challenge: scent Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, one of his most famous works. (You can find lots of links to possibly helpful reading on the Scent of the day page.) Not in the mood? Pick one of the colors and use it to choose a fragrance, or wear a fragrance that works for New York City in the early 1940s.
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.
So after reading New York Style in Piet Mondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie, I looked for something that called to mind the movement and energy of jazz (“hectic, boisterous arrangement”) and of cities, plus joy and light, breaking out “from the captivity of black lines”, and etc. There are several fragrances I might have picked but no longer owned, so I ended up in good old Diptyque Oyédo…
Maison Margiela will launch Never-Ending Summer (Amalfi Coast 2022), a new unisex spicy citrus fragrance joining the Replica series…
Puig’s fragrance division saw a drop from 40 per cent growth in 2022 to 17 per cent in 2023, then down to 13.6 per cent in 2024, on a reported basis. Estée Lauder Companies reported a sharp decline in fragrance growth: 30 per cent in 2022, flatlining in 2023 and up 1 per cent in 2024. Coty fared slightly better, with reported growth declining from 18 per cent in 2022 to “low teens” in 2023, before a modest rebound to “mid teens” in 2024. [...] “After years of heightened investment, a slowdown was inevitable,” says [Aishwarya] Rajpara.
— Read more in How beauty should prepare for a fragrance slowdown at Vogue Business.
Hugo Boss has launched Exuberant Geranium, a new limited edition fragrance in the Boss The Collection series. Exuberant Geranium is not to be confused with 2022’s Sensual Geranium…*