French perfume house Le Galion has launched Ferveur, a new fragrance. Earlier this year, the brand reissued Eau Noble, a 1972 fragrance. Both scents were developed by perfumer Rodrigo Florès-Roux…
Elizabeth Arden Green Tea Lychee Lime ~ new fragrance
Elizabeth Arden has launched Green Tea Lychee Lime, the latest in their series of flankers to 1999’s Green Tea…
Arquiste Peau ~ new fragrance
The (almost) daily lemming
Vacation sunscreen, developed for Poolside.FM by Carlos Huber of Arquiste and perfumer Rodrigo Flores-Roux. It is "is designed to capture and bottle the complete sunscreen experience from coconut, to pool water, to swimsuit lycra and everything in between" (other notes include banana, orange blossom and vanilla). You can pre-order a 100 ml tube now at Vacation for $20, or skip the SPF and just buy 30 ml of the Eau de Toilette for $60, or read more about the project at Fast Company.
Hot & Humid: Astier de Villatte Tucson Incense & Arquiste Nocturnal Green Candle ~ home fragrance reviews
The hottest I’ve been on Earth was in Tucson, Arizona, one July, long ago. My partner and I were driving from Virginia to Los Angeles, and one day, near the end of our journey, we stopped for gasoline and lunch in Tucson. Nearing the city, the car’s air conditioning was overwhelmed; the inside of the car became stuffy, warm like an…oven. Perspiration dripped from my nose. When we stepped outside the car, we were stupefied and in the dry heat all sweat evaporated. The air was as still as the inside of a tomb (and speaking of tombs, Tombstone, Arizona, was just an hour’s drive south). Heat, visible waves of it, attacked us from all directions: below, above, sideways. We were in Hell’s reception room: 113 degrees Fahrenheit. All we needed to complete the scene was the sound of a rattlesnake’s tail in full swing…