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Lazy weekend poll ~ Haiku challenge 2022!

Posted by Robin on 14 May 2022 232 Comments

Today, our thirteenth annual Haiku Challenge (if you like, you can check out past years for inspiration). We’re also happy to include other forms of poetry if haiku don’t inspire you. Have a perfume-related limerick or a sonnet you’d like to share? Please do.

If you’re writing a haiku, pick a perfume or a perfume house (or really, anything related to perfume), and write a haiku about it.

Use the simplified English form — your haiku should have three lines, the first line with five syllables, the second line with seven syllables and the third line with five syllables. You can put the perfume name in the title if that makes it easier, and at any rate, don’t stress over the rules of traditional haiku — this is just for fun…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 13 May 2022 5 Comments

From Mer-Sea & Co, the Avant Garden Perfume Pendant Necklace: "Keep your favorite scent close to your heart with this stunning pendant necklace that doubles as a chalice of perfume. Choose from three included fragrances (or your tried-and-true favorite) and use the included dropper to transfer the scent into the vial." The 18" gold-plated necklace comes with 3 ml each of Sweet Clementine, Climbing Roses and Butterfly Garden; $42 at Anthropologie.

Lancome Idole Nectar ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 13 May 2022 7 Comments

Lancôme will launch Idôle Nectar, a new flanker to the 2019 Idôle fragrance for women…

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Santa Maria Novella L’Iris ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 13 May 2022 6 Comments

Italian niche line Santa Maria Novella will launch L’Iris,* the brand’s first fragrance in Eau de Parfum concentration. The new fragrance comes after private equity firm Italmobiliare acquired the brand in 2021…

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Friday scent of the day 5/13

Posted by Robin on 13 May 2022 230 Comments

It’s Friday the 13th! That’s as good an excuse for a cocktail as any, so just as well it’s also World Cocktail Day. Our community project for today: tell us about your favorite cocktail (alcoholic or non-alcoholic), provide a recipe if you like, and wear a perfume that would complement your choice or that picks up one of the notes in your cocktail. It doesn’t have to be a boozy fragrance! (This is a repeat from 2018, and we also did a booze cruise in 2017).

What fragrance(s) did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

My (home) cocktail routine hasn’t changed much since the 2018 poll, when I said I usually mixed “the Italian aperitif wine Cocchi Americano, on grapefruit ice cubes with tonic syrup, mineral water and a twist, sometimes with a dash of bitters”, switching to Cocchi Storico Vermouth di Torino in the winter. I’ve since expanded to the occasional bottle of Cocchi Dopo Teatro or Carpano Antica Formula, and today I’m picking up the wormwood and other bitter materials in the Carpano with Astier de Villatte Elixir du Dr. Flair…

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