A limited edition gift set from Jo Loves, with 10 ml travel sprays of White Rose & Lemon Leaves, Rose Petal 25 and the upcoming Rosé & Dates ("Experience the rich, smoky warmth of Rosé and Dates, a fragrance like no other"), £75 at Jo Loves in the UK.
It’s Tuesday and Inventors’ Day aka Thomas Edison’s birthday. RIP Tom Robbins. What fragrance are you wearing?
I woke late and am already behind for the day. I will pick a fragrance later! Tea at the moment is a green Mao Feng from Upton.
Reminder: 2/14 is Valentine’s Day…
Current sociopolitical motivations notwithstanding, the gourmand craze is not an overnight sensation. “Gourmands never went away. Angel was one of the fragrances that confirmed the trend. Everybody wanted to smell yummy and attractive with a big sillage,” Ulrich Lang, founder of Ulrich Lang New York, tells BeautyMatter. “This current trend of gourmands was probably accelerated by all these crises in the world because they want to have something that's really cozy and cocooning.”
— Read more in Will Gourmand Fragrances Hit Sugar Peak? at BeautyMatter.
It’s the weekend! As of Saturday, there are 40 days of (astronomical) winter left (or, 21 days until meteorological spring), and Now Smell This is 20 years old.
We’re marking the time with our usual open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, the last perfume you tried in a brick & mortar store, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Luxury niche line Clive Christian has launched L Red Tea Vetiver, a new fragrance in the brand’s Private Collection…