Diptyque will be holding a sample sale this week with 40-90% off retail prices. The hours are 9:30 am to 6 pm on Thursday, June 18th and 9:30 am to 4 pm on Friday, June 19th. Credit cards only (no cash, checks or returns); you'll find the sale at 11 East 26th Street, Suite 600 (between Madison and 5th Avenue). Many thanks to Jessica for the tip!
Diptyque ~ shopping for perfume in New York City
Bleecker Street in Manhattan’s West Village features a remarkable array of intimate designer shops, and the Parisian perfume house of Diptyque recently joined this chic line-up. Diptyque’s New York boutique is one of only two in the United States (the other is located in San Francisco), so if you’re in the metropolitan area and you’re not planning a trip to Paris any time soon, a visit to this store is the best way to experience the Diptyque aesthetic. Just like the company’s signature packaging, the boutique’s decor is a mix of minimalism and poetic detail. One wall is painted matte black, one is veiled with sheer white fabric, and one is currently hung with a larger-than-life reproduction of a Rococo painting of Bathsheba performing her toilette.
Diptyque’s cult-classic candles, in every available fragrance, occupy one side of the shop. On the top shelf of their display, a row of small flat-screen monitors shows a continuous video loop of the candles lit with flickering flames…
Perfume Expo America rescheduled
The trade show Perfume Expo America (PXA), originally scheduled for June 9 through the 12th at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City, has been rescheduled. The event will now take place from June 30th through July 2nd at the Hilton Americas on 1335 Avenue of the Americas. If you signed up here for free tickets, do note the date and venue change.
Ernesto Neto’s anthropodino at New York’s Park Avenue Armory
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto has created anthropodino, an “immense interactive installation” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City:
Park Avenue Armory launches its first commissioned art installation with anthropodino, a large-scale, interactive work by world-renowned artist, Ernesto Neto. Using hundreds of yards of translucent material, Neto suspends a gigantic canopy from the drill hall’s latticework truss, spanning 120 feet wide and 180 feet long. Magnificent, aromatic “fabric stalactites” descend 60 feet to embrace a vast labyrinth of passageways and rooms…
Juicy Couture ~ Shopping for perfume in New York
When you enter Juicy Couture’s flagship store on Fifth Avenue, you’ll see the fragrance department straight ahead, at a counter emblazoned with the phrase “Smells Like Couture.” (Somewhere, Kurt Cobain is wincing.) The brand’s full line of fragrances and other beauty items is available, including two perfumes for women and matching body products — shower gels, lotions, dusting powder, and more — all ornamented with the brand’s logos and assorted pink baubles. Around the corner, several shelves display “Juicy Crittoure” fragranced products (“pawfum,” shampoo, and foot balm) for dogs.
Every element of Juicy Couture’s overall store design feels appropriated from somewhere else. (Even the stuffed peacock trailing his plumes above the perfume counter may have been inspired by the now-iconic decor of Aedes de Venustas.) The resulting pastiche is the visual equivalent of those Verve remixes that layer a present-day club beat over a classic jazz vocal…