From Incienso de Santa Fe, a Log Cabin incense burner with 20 blocks of piñon incense. $8.90.
Holiday fragrance gifts 2017, part 2
Today, the second in our annual series on fragrance related holiday gifts, with some recommendations for stocking stuffers and cheap thrills. Do add any of your own picks in the comments!
From Feret Parfumeur, Le Baume Parfum Violette: “Discover this all-in-one balm for face, lips, and body. Formulated with honey and dandelion from organic farming, it is 100% natural. Its perfume with violet will bewitch you from the first use. Good for the whole family. It repairs, moisturizes and soothes sensitive skin.” 50 ml for $18 at Beautyhabit…
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Ikea's new Friskhet series includes a number of scented candles plus these air freshener dohickies: "You decide how much scent you want the scent container to emit by how much you open its holes. The scent will last longer if you close the holes completely when you are not using the scent container." Available in Lilac (the color, not the scent: "Gives off a refreshing scent of grass, vanilla and sandalwood") or Gray ("Gives off a refreshing scent of sandalwood, cedar and vanilla"), $1.99 each.
Piver Reve d’Or ~ fragrance review
In August, I met up with a friend at Sous le Parasol, a tiny perfume boutique in a decidedly non-chi-chi Parisian neighborhood. The boutique looks like it hasn’t had a branding update since 1966, and its logo and throwback storefront needs only Jeanne Moreau in a trench coat to shine in a nouvelle vague movie.
Naturally, my pulse leapt at Sous le Parasol’s glorious retro-chic décor. But what really got my heart racing were its shelves of cheap thrills. David Hasson, a Spanish perfumer, founded Sous le Parasol in 1936. He stocked his shop with his own colognes and blended them at his laboratory in Burgundy from materials from Grasse. The founder’s son still makes the boutique’s fragrances, and the granddaughter runs it…
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From Bastide (formerly Côté Bastide), Ambre Maquis Eau de Toilette in a 10 ml travel spray. "Warm, sensual, and mysterious, this fragrance is complex, evoking the delicate dance between strangers and lovers. During a candlelit dinner on the terrace of the Bastide, two individuals are sitting across from one another. A loving couple, a growing passion, or an eternal friendship - we will never know... All we feel is the steadfast force of their connection." $32 at Bastide.