Say $425 dropped into your lap, and you had to spend it on perfume. What would you buy? If you want to smell like a sharply cut ice-white diamond splashing rainbows of light, you might want to consider Ormonde Jayne White Gold Extrait.
Perfumer Geza Schoen developed White Gold, and it’s the third in Ormonde Jayne’s Gold trilogy…
Day and night. Beachy sun and evening fog. Sunshine pop and a cello concerto. This is how I think of Imaginary Authors Sundrunk next to Masque Milano Luci ed Ombre. (Kevin reviewed Luci ed Ombre here, but I’ve recently discovered it, and I can’t resist bringing it to your attention again.) Both brands deliver stories with their fragrances, and, no surprise, they’re stark complements…
A few weeks ago, I ambled down to Fumerie to see what’s new. Tracy pulled a tester of Jovoy Remember Me from the shelf behind her and said, “Have you smelled this one?” I hadn’t. “I barely finish spraying it on a strip,” she told me, “And customers say, ‘I’ll take it’.”
What kind of fragrance reels someone in so quickly and surely? I had to try it. She sent me home with a sample…
Over the summer, a friend’s son, Anders, turned 13 years old. He’s a stylish kid — he likes to raid his departed grandpa’s closet for ascots and Gucci sunglasses and send the resulting selfies to his mom. He also enjoys the company of middle-aged women, so he asked to host his birthday party at my house.
He was impressed by my perfume collection. I suggested he try a spritz of Guerlain Vetiver. Now, Anders doesn’t have a lot of experience with perfume. When he was a kindergartner, he found a bottle of something Avon that he called his “man cologne” for a few weeks, but that’s it…
Reading Perfumes: The Guide 20181 has got me revisiting old samples, among them Lubin Upper Ten and Upper Ten for Her, both of which received four stars. Turin writes that Upper Ten has “the cleverest accord I have smelled in a very long time,” and Upper Ten for Her is a “perfume doing the splits.” How could I resist…