A few years back I did a list of green fragrances in honor of St Patrick's Day. Today, let's do a mash-up of green fragrances + an open thread: name a green fragrance you like, then go ahead and talk about whatever else you want to talk about (ask a question, tell us what perfume you're wearing, the last scent you bought, whatever). Then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer.
I'm wearing Annick Goutal's very green Mandragore…
Living in the Pacific Northwest, I’m surrounded all year by the colors, and scents, of greenery — evergreen trees and shrubs, green lawns (even in January). But there are cold-winter greens (often dark colored, dull, and chilled into scentlessness by frigid temperatures), and then there are spring and early-summer new-growth greens — vivid, dewy fresh and fragrant with zingy juices. Call me sappy — give me springtime and summery greens and lots of them.
I’m a big fan of ‘green’ perfumes: I like sharp and punchy pure-green fragrances (full of leafy, stem-y, grassy notes). I like citrus-y green colognes too; even high-pitched floral-green scents appeal to me. And if a green perfume turns ‘soft’ or ‘wilts’ in the dry-down due to a touch of musk, that’s usually OK — as long as the green notes linger a good while, even in a spectral fashion.
Byredo Green, developed by perfumer Jerôme Epinette, contains sage, petitgrain, jasmine, rose, violet, honeysuckle, vanilla, sweet almond and musk…
The Six Scents Fragrance Initiative debuted last year. The project is a collaboration between Symrise, Metaproject and Seven New York: each year, they’ll release six new fragrances, each one pairing a Symrise perfumer with a designer, and donate a portion of the proceeds to charity. The beneficiary of the 2008 collection will be Designers Against AIDS.
Several of the fragrances in the 2008 collection were interesting (I’m still mulling over No. 2, Wicken 3000 oops, make that No. 4, Diagonal) but No. 3, The Spirit of Wood was the only one that inspired love at first sniff. No. 3 was developed by perfumer Philippe Paparella-Paris for Cosmic Wonder Light Source, the fashion line of Japanese designer Yukinori Maeda, and it’s worth repeating the perfumer’s statement from the ad copy…
About a month ago I was shopping in Manhattan with some visiting friends, and we noticed that several stores, from Barneys and Henri Bendel in midtown to The Family Jewels vintage clothing boutique in Chelsea, were decorated with 1960s motifs and a proliferation of peace signs. We eventually learned that these displays were tributes to the peace sign’s fiftieth anniversary. Peace Soap from the toiletries company Kala Style is another homage to that iconic symbol, in an affordable and playful form that would make an upbeat little gift for a friend (or yourself).
One hefty, lime-colored bar of Peace Soap lasts through several weeks of showers or baths. Its vegetable-based formula contains aloe and glycerin for gentle cleansing. The scent includes mint, which is one of my favorite head-clearing essences, as well as an indefinable blend of other leafy green notes…
I was surprised to see that I have never included L’Artisan Parfumeur’s signature scent, L’Eau de L’Artisan, in a Top 10 of Summer article. This 1993 fragrance by perfumer Olivia Giacobetti has long been one of my hot weather staples, and it is one of very few bottles in my collection that I drain and replenish on a regular basis.
L’Eau de L’Artisan’s opening is bright and crisp…