Our Modern Lives Red, Alpha & Beta ~ fragrance reviews

Posted by Jessica on 16 March 2018 6 Comments

If you’re a fan of indie perfumer Sarah McCartney, creator of 4160 Tuesdays, you may already know that she recently introduced a new collection called Our Modern Lives. The collection includes seven all-natural botanical perfumes named for colors and moods, plus two synthetic, hypoallergenic fragrances that can be worn alone or layered with the naturals. It’s an ingenious concept. With this collection, we’re able to choose or combine at will.

I’m slowly working my way through Our Modern Lives’ spectrum of natural fragrances; at the moment, Red (whose mood is “Gratitude” and theme is “Harvest”) is my favorite…

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Top 10 Fall Fragrances 2017

Posted by Erin on 22 September 2017 57 Comments

Where I live, it is the first day of autumn, and this year, September is the new August: after a wet and confusingly mild vacation season¹, we look likely to celebrate a glorious Indian Summer. I have always loved the early fall, so I’m tempted, each time I select the autumnal Top 10 at Now Smell This, to stack it with all my favorite chypres, floral ambers and woody orientals. This time, to avoid boring you with repetition, I’ve chosen fragrances released in the last two to three years. I can’t promise there will be any less oakmoss than usual, but I do think I’m fruitier and more craft distilled today…

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We humans get better with practice

Posted by Robin on 15 May 2017 Leave a Comment

I’ve spent 20 years learning to recognise different aromas; I make perfume for a living, and I run workshops to guide people around the world of fragrance. Apart from those whose sense of smell is irreparably damaged, we humans get better with practice pretty quickly. Even people who believe they have a terrible sense of smell are often good at it.

— Sarah McCartney of 4160Tuesdays for The Guardian. Read more at The nose has it: it’s no surprise humans’ sense of smell can be as good as dogs’.

4160Tuesdays Tart’s Knicker Drawer ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 1 December 2016 15 Comments

Model with Flapper Pillow and Pointy Shoes

I’m still happily working my way through a handful of sample vials from the independent perfumery 4160Tuesdays, and my latest crush from this house is Tart’s Knicker Drawer, a “floriental amber” with top notes of bergamot, orange, grapefruit and pink peppercorn; heart notes of raspberry, rose, jasmine, sandalwood, cedarwood, violet, tuberose and guiacwood; and basenotes of amber, musk, vanilla, benzoin and tobacco.

“Tart’s knicker drawer” is the phrase that 4160Tuesdays founder and perfumer Sarah McCartney’s grandmother used to describe women who wore too much perfume (and whose behavior was therefore questionable); McCartney created this fragrance after she’d spent a long day in her lab and was scented with the traces of six different perfumes-in-progress. When she tweeted, “I’m about to get in the E3 bus smelling like a tart’s boudoir,” she got so many enthusiastic responses (“Can I buy some?!”) that she decided to concoct a proper perfume inspired by the experience…

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Up for grabs: Imaginary Authors + 4160Tuesdays

Posted by Robin on 19 October 2016 64 Comments — Comments are closed

Imaginary Authors Slow Explosions brand image

What is it: a 50 ml bottle of Imaginary Authors Slow Explosions (used lightly for testing) + a 9 ml travel spray of 4160Tuesdays Centrepiece (unused).

How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment on the website telling me that you live in the US (or that you can provide a US mailing address). Then tell me either a) your favorite indie niche fragrance, or b) the best fragrance you’ve smelled in all of 2016 (so far), or c) something else you’ve been dying to post in a comment.

Be sure to use the “Post a comment” box; do not reply to another comment…

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