Welcome to our 7th annual spring reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our reading lists, and tell us what fragrance we should wear while reading it.
Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
Salvatore Ferragamo has introduced Fiamma Assoluta, a new flanker to 2025’s Fiamma…
The splitmeet (episode 25) is open for business. PLEASE read the instructions! For people who would like to chat in addition to, or instead of, splitting, there will be a poll along shortly.
Don’t know what a bottle split is, or you know but you’ve never tried it? See here.
Please note that the intention of the splitmeet is to split newly purchased bottles of perfume, not to sell decants of fragrances already in your collection! Anyone can join a split, but only people with current, active reader accounts may host splits. Update: in other words, you cannot host a split if you have never commented here before the day the splitmeet opens…
Beyond the old guard, the winding, sloping cobblestone lanes are chock-full of perfume boutiques, ateliers, and independent perfumers. It’s not uncommon to spy an artisan working on a formula at their perfumer’s organ through their storefront window. This rich history of fragrance and flower fields manifests in all sorts of ways throughout town, including lavender-flavored ice cream, rose lattés, and book shops stocked with flower field guides.
— Read more in This French Village Is the ‘Perfume Capital of the World’—With Cobblestone Streets, Miles of Flowers, and Tons of Charm at Travel + Leisure.
French niche line Pierre Guillaume has launched two new fragrances, 13.2 Metarosme and 29.1 À l’heure des Catleyas…