Molton Brown will introduce a new limited edition holiday fragrance, Bizarre Brandy. Muddled Plum will return for the holiday season, and Vintage with Elderflower, previously available in body products, will also be introduced in Eau de Toilette. (Festive Frankincense & Allspice will return in body products as well…)
The Jean Paul Gaultier holiday snow globes for Classique (100 ml) and Le Mâle (125 ml) are out already, and they're mighty cute, although they would please me even more if they launched in say, November? Anyway, you can find them at Macy's in the US or Escentual in the UK.
Happy Holidays! We’ll be back tomorrow.
In the meantime, feel free to talk about whatever you like: what perfume you’re wearing today, what you’re cooking (or eating) over the holidays, anything at all.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
This year, 2018, marks my twelfth year writing about perfume. I’ve passed a period where I bought a bottle of fragrance a month, and I no longer need to study my way through the classics to understand fragrance benchmarks. I’ve given up on trying to sniff most new releases, and I only bought two new bottles of perfume this year. But I still wear perfume every day. In other words, by now I’m living with fragrance the way I’ll probably live with it the rest of my life.
Now that I’ve lowered your expectations, here are my perfume highlights for the year…
Folks in the UK have probably already seen this umpteen times, but in case anyone elsewhere missed it, here is the John Lewis & Partners Christmas advert with Elton John. Some people loved it. Some people didn’t.
Below the jump, Waitrose puts the focus back on what really matters.