From Jean Paul Gaultier, the summer 2017 Eau Fraîche versions of Le Male and Classique, decorated with Superman and Wonder Woman. Listed as coming soon at Incenza in France. (You might remember that last summer was Popeye and Betty Boop, I liked those a little better.)
Philosophy has launched Pure Grace Summer Surf, a new limited edition flanker to Pure Grace…
Calvin Klein will launch the annual limited edition summer versions of 1988’s Eternity, 1989’s Eternity for Men and 1994’s CK One in March. This year’s collection was “inspired by the idea of a couple in the middle of the desert enjoying the heat of the sun before the cool of the night” (Eternity) and partying at desert festivals (CK One)…
I didn’t realize how much I missed summer bugs (animals, not diseases) till I left Virginia as a teenager. Living on Manhattan, then Los Angeles and now Seattle doesn’t compare to the South when it comes to insect life. My childhood summers were filled with the sounds of crickets and cicadas. Butterflies put on a non-stop show in the flower gardens. Nighttime was when my grandmother and I would sit on the front porch (swatting mosquitoes, one bug I do NOT love) and watch the fireflies as we took in the heady scent of gardenias — whose white blossoms also lit up the darkness. I’d love to see a grasshopper or praying mantis, a big black-and-yellow garden spider shimmering in the sun, or a dragonfly flitting about my yard.
Here in Seattle I do get to see some beautiful moths, living their brief moments on earth holding fast to my deck screens or circling a light bulb. Tiny spiders are everywhere, inside and out, and I would never think to kill one — they work so long and hard to live and make a living. Right now in Seattle it’s the season for ten-lined June beetles (a type of scarab beetle); my cats (to my chagrin) love to chase, torment and kill June beetles, who, as they fight for their lives, raise up their antlers (yes, antlers) and make puffing sounds to ward off attacks. Here’s to bugs! (AND summer perfumes!)
Coqui Coqui Rosas Secas ~ This wonderful rose perfume smells of dried rosebuds mixing with a fresh rose bouquet; there’s also a pinch of tobacco leaf. Rosas Secas is a great rose perfume for men…
It’s Friday. Our community project for today: wear one of your “top 10 of summer” fragrances (unless it’s winter where you are, in which case wear one of your “top 10 of winter” scents).
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m wearing Hiram Green Dilettante…