Tom Ford will launch Modern Tropic, a new fragrance in the Tom Ford Private Blend collection, early next year…
The almost-daily lemming
A FlordeMusgo candle from Xinú, done in matte black in a limited edition collaboration with designer Willy Chavarria. ("The Comunión Candle Set was created with Xinú for the Willy Chavarria SS27 runway presentation. It pairs a special edition FlordeMusgo Candle, in a matte black vessel with a custom Willy Chavarria medallion, with a Comunión Palito made from driftwood collected along the coasts of Mexico. Each palito is engraved for the collaboration and wrapped in thread infused with the fragrance.") With lime, tuberose, moss and cedar, 250g for $120 at Willy Chavarria.
Tuesday scent of the day 11/3
It’s Tuesday, plus National Sandwich Day and World Jellyfish Day. Birthdays: Walker Evans, Anna Wintour. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Comme des Garçons Kyoto and I’m drinking a cup of Upton Christmas tea.
Reminder: on 11/6, wear the fragrance you’d like to give to your 21-year-old self…
Reduced to tears by Caron’s 1919 Tabac Blond
But the archive also is open to the public on request. “It’s always to look for a positive memory: childhood, a grandmother, a mother, a first love,” said Ms. Pouant, who recalled a woman reduced to tears by Caron’s 1919 Tabac Blonde [sic], the perfume used by one of her grandmothers.
— The New York Times on the Osmothèque. Read more in In France, a Treasure Trove of Fragrance.
In March 2025, a tiger followed a forest trail through Nepal’s Khata Corridor until it reached a small iron stake next to the path. Attached to it was a dispenser releasing a laboratory-made version of a chemical found in the scent markings big cats use to mark their territory and communicate with other cats.
A camera trap recorded the Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) approaching the station. The curious cat investigated the smell and then stopped, one of multiple instances of tigers and leopards coming up to these scent stations and then turning back the way they came.
— Read more in After Botswana, Nepal tries artificial scent marking to fend big cats off villages at Mongabay.
Fragrance net sales increased 20% in the company's fiscal first quarter, Estée Lauder reported on Monday. It was one of the fastest-growing divisions for the company in the quarter. Gains were fueled by double-digit growth in high-end brands Le Labo, Tom Ford, Jo Malone London, and Kilian Paris. Estée Lauder also notched growth.
— Read more in Estée Lauder CEO on surging fragrance sales: 'Consumers are getting younger' at Yahoo!Finance.
Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ Fall Back, 2026
If it’s Saturday, happy Halloween! If it’s Sunday, rabbit, rabbit, rabbit (🐇🐇🐇)! Welcome to November, plus, happy Day of the Dead, plus, a little reminder: if you live in a daylight savings zone, don’t forget to change your clocks! That means it’s time for our tenth annual Fall Back poll.
As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else. If it’s spring where you live, adjust the questions accordingly.
1. What’s the fragrance you’d most like to add to your collection this fall?
2. You have to vote one perfume in your collection off the island. Which one will go first, and why?
3. It’s time for a (fantasy) fall getaway! Where are you going, and pick ONE fragrance to bring with you…