A spot for Loewe Agua Drop and Solo Vulcan.
A tray of personally selected options for you to spritz your way through
Indeed, the experience here is unlike anything you will likely find in a hectic department store. Take a seat in one of the plush private suites, refreshments in hand, and your concierge expert will bring a tray of personally selected options for you to spritz your way through – and keep spritzing until you find The One. There’s no obligation to buy, no nudge towards the checkout and crucially, no fragrance jargon.
— Liberty London has a new Fragrance Lounge. Read more in Inside Liberty’s perfume revolution at Harper's Bazaar UK.
Florabloom x 2
For Guerlain Florabloom: perfumer Thierry Wasser on tuberose enfleurage, followed by (below the jump) grower Emmanuelle Gastadi in the tuberose fields in Grasse.
A house for a little dog
Niche means a house for a little dog, meaning a house that’s so small it cannot grow. And in that word ‘niche’, which comes from marketing people who aren’t the most inventive by essence, there was a little bit of contempt. It was like, ‘Oh, that’s niche; it’s not going to become so big.’ And the same people who criticised us have joined, as one joins victory, and now the word has stuck. And it’s become a whole perfume category, which today has become completely overcrowded.
— Frédéric Malle, quoted in Legendary Perfumer Frédéric Malle On Expanding his Footprint in Asia at Prestige.
La Vita
Chiara Scelsi in Rome for Dolce & Gabbana Dolce Blue Jasmine.