Indie natural line Providence Perfume Co has launched Osmanthia, a new fruity floral fragrance…*
Christmas in Provence
A short holiday video from L'Occitane, highlighting Veillée Pralinée and Nuit en Pinède.
Friday scent of the day 10/30
It’s Friday and National Candy Corn Day. Birthdays: Christopher Wren, John Adams, Clifford Brown, Louis Malle, Grace Slick. RIP Patrick Stewart. Our community project for today: celebrate the start of Halloween weekend by wearing a fragrance that you like, but that isn’t quite “you”…so it works as a costume, so to speak.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
Me: points for sure, in Chanel no. 5…
Scratch and sniff
The Massachusetts Lottery is giving new meaning to the phrase scratch and sniff.
The winter holiday-themed scratch tickets the Lottery began launching this month offer "a little something new for our players," Lottery marketing specialist Kate Sutton said. The $5 and $10 Candy Cane Cash Blowout tickets that became available Oct. 6 "are our first ever scented holiday tickets, with both Candy Cane Cash Blowout tickets smelling like, what else, but peppermint," she said.
— Read more in Scratch and sniff: Scented offering eyed to lift sagging scratch ticket sales at WBUR. Hat tip to AnnE!
The daily lemming
L'Occitane's holiday collection this year includes two limited edition fragrances: Veillée Pralinée ("A festive evening in the heart of a Provençal bastide. A warm and gourmand blend of praline and sandalwood") and Nuit en Pinède ("A serene winter escape. A fresh and aromatic blend of Scots pine and peppermint"). Both are available in bar hand soap, liquid hand soap, hand cream (30 and 150 ml), candle (180g) and diffuser, plus a variety of gift sets. I do not know how many of these will make it to the US, but you can pick up the hand creams, candles and liquid hand soap now at L'Occitane USA.