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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 7 September 2023 3 Comments

A possibility if you're looking for an incense holder and don't want to blow the bank: the Templo from Barcelona-based brand Octaevo. "To help you pause, reconnect with yourself and create a space of tranquility in your busy everyday life, Octaevo has designed a pedestal that perfectly holds incense sticks, captures the ashes and also serves as a decorative catchall." In four colors, $36 each at Beautyhabit. (And an update on yesterday's spendy Loewe incense set: I should have mentioned you can buy the 25 incense sticks separately for $65.)

The every-so-often lemming

Posted by Robin on 6 September 2023 5 Comments

Yes, I am still lemming all the items from Loewe's home collection, none of which I am ever likely to pay for. Here is the new incense set in Tomato Leaves: "Set featuring a terracotta incense holder and 25 incense sticks crafted in bamboo with Tomato Leaves essence. Echoing the distinctive design of LOEWE Home Scents Scented Candles, the Incense Holder is crafted in glazed terracotta with a ribbed surface and an organic, curvilinear shape, made to burn your incense safely and cleanly. Each Tomato Leaves incense stick reveals a green scent evoking the fresh, verdant aroma of tomato vines just before they burst into fruit. The scent reveals delicate notes of cassis berries over time." $205 (!) at Loewe.

The occasional lemming

Posted by Robin on 31 August 2023 10 Comments

Les Mondes de Diptyque, a new collection of five refillable candles. The fragrances are from perfumer Olivia Giacobetti, and I'll take any or all: La Forêt Rêve (mauve, a "fantastical forest" in the "Mexican jungle"; with tuberose, ylang ylang, jasmine, vanilla and galbanum); La Vallée du Temps (smoke/white, "Jingdezhen....cradle of Chinese porcelain, also famous for its white tea", with white tea, maté and jasmine); Nymphées Merveilles (blue/gray, "gardens of the Renaissance", with orange blossom, jasmine and iris); Temple des Mousses (green, "a Japanese Zen garden...not far from Kyoto", with moss, cedar and matcha); Terres Blondes (terracotta, "Mesa Verde. On the high plateaux of Colorado", with wheat bran, red cedar and burnt earth). The 270g candles are $285 each, the refills are $135. You can find them now at Saks.

Cinnamon Pumpkin Spice Ultra Strong Trash Bags

Posted by Robin on 24 August 2023 4 Comments

"When we saw just how quickly our Cinnamon Pumpkin Spice Ultra Strong Trash Bags sold out las year, we knew we had struck a powerful nerve with fans," Brian Lutz, senior brand manager at Reynolds Consumer Products said in a press release. "This year, we wanted to reward that pumpkin spice love in an even bigger way, and so we've made Cinnamon Pumpkin Spice Trash Bags available for purchase in-store at key retailers."

— Read more in Hefty's Pumpkin Spice-Scented Trash Bags Are Back, and People Are Already Clearing Them Off Shelves at Parade, or see Starbucks' Pumpkin Spice Latte, just turned 20, is arriving colder, boozier, and earlier than ever at Quartz, Krispy Kreme Is Releasing a Line of Pumpkin Spice-Flavored Doggie Doughnuts at Parade, or Pumpkin spice season is officially upon us: All the new products this fall at Good Morning America.

The almost-daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 26 July 2023 9 Comments

Sure, I'll take one. Diptyque celebrates the 60th anniversary of their candle line with "the 49 nuances of our herbarium of scents in a limited-edition box". 13 were made, $3500 each.

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