A spot for Cacharel fragrances.
The daily lemming
From Sol de Janeiro, Rosa Charmosa Dewy Cream: "This luminosity-boosting body cream leaves skin dewy-fresh, infusing it with immediate and lasting 48-hour hydration. Crystal Peptide, Brazilian yacón essence, and rosewater intensely replenish skin. The juicy and floral Cheirosa 91 scent pulses with notes of Rio pink rose, passionfruit, and honey caramel." In 75 ($24) or 240 ($48) ml at Sephora.
Arielle Shoshana + Michelle Visage Wednesday ~ new fragrance
Virginia-based niche boutique Arielle Shoshana has launched Wednesday, a new fragrance in collaboration with Michelle Visage…
Wednesday scent of the day 12/17
It’s Hump Day plus Wright Brothers Day and Maple Syrup Day. Birthdays: Ford Madox Ford, Penelope Fitzgerald, Art Neville. What fragrance are you wearing?
So AJ Liebling talked to Édith Piaf in 1947, and asked her if she still had “wonderful sad songs” to sing…
“No, I don’t feel the old songs any more. I have evolved. I was never really a pessimist. I believe that there is always a little corner of blue sky, nevertheless, somewhere. In those old songs, there arrived invariably, at the end, a catastrophe. But now I have one called ‘Mariage,’ which is quite different. It begins in the cell of a woman who has already murdered her husband. She reviews her life, she hears the wedding bells, she sees herself in the arms of this man whom she has killed, an innocent young bride. It’s very beautiful.” As for herself, Mlle. Piaf said, she has never married and never killed anybody. “For me, love always goes badly,” she said. “It is perhaps because I have a mania of choosing. I don’t wait to be chosen. That places me in a position of inferiority. And I always choose badly. So the relationships turn out badly. Sometimes only two or three days. But I’m always optimistic.”
So for Mariage, I’m in vintage Guerlain Shalimar. It’s what I’d wear to my murder trial.
Reminder: 12/19 is Édith Piaf’s birthday…
The notes of his perfume
Seven years ago, around this time of year, in a bar in Madrid with brick walls and velvet sofas, I discovered the perfume that would end up being my signature scent for almost a decade. It was by chance that a friend of a friend came to say hello to the table and introduced himself to me. I don’t remember his name, nor his face, but today I could list from memory the notes of his perfume, which shortly after would also end up being mine: myrrh, myrtle, oregano, rockrose, pine, laurel, thyme and rosemary—cocktailed into Diptyque L’Eau Trois.
— Read more in The One Perfume I’ve Asked For Every Christmas For The Last 7 Years at Vogue.