Roberto Verino has launched Mellow, a fragrance created with the help of students at the University of Madrid, who helped design the bottle, logo and advertising…
Celebrity perfume quote of the day
"They said it was `weird,'" he says, recalling Coty's initial reluctance to base the scent on essential oils. "They said it was spiritual, and they said those kinds of scents don't usually sell."
— Russell Simmons on his new scent, Phat Farm Atman. Simmons is donating all of the profits from the fragrance to charities that benefit children. (via The Toronto Star link no longer working, sorry!)
Valentino Rock'n Rose, Lulu by Lulu Castagnette ~ new fragrances
Valentino has launched Rock ‘n Rose, a fragrance “inspired by a new generation of young Valentino women….a Rose on the outside and a Rocker on the inside”…
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman ~ perfume book review
One of the earliest written documents on smell is a treatise known as De Odoribus, commonly attributed to Theophrastus of Athens (ca. 372 – ca. 287 BC). It dates back to the times when men wore white tunics, and sat under olive trees to ponder about life. Nature was a mysterious thing, and making sense of it (!) was based on experience rather than experiment. Although our outlook on Life and Nature has changed drastically over the course of centuries, we can still relate to the naturalist approach practiced in Ancient Greece. The huge popularity of Diane Ackerman’s Natural History of the Senses is a case in point…
Montale Blue Amber fragrance review
Before I became a bony, arrogant, and selfish teenage snob, I was a shy, chubby bookworm with a crew cut, thick glasses, and a sense of modesty that bordered on the nutty — I wouldn’t even let bare ankles show between pants and shoes.
My prepubescent self was inhibited and stubborn, but also kinder than the “Teen-to-Come” — I would actually do things to please others. My father loved fishing and wanted me to love it too, so I humored him and always said “yes” when he asked me to go on fishing trips. I didn’t like handling the smelly crabmeat bait or seeing and hearing fish struggle after being caught, or getting seasick as monstrous swells would almost capsize the boat, but I enjoyed the fragrant sea breezes, the warm sun, the boat rides, navigating around old buoys and isolated lighthouses, seeing the herons, hawks and ducks that flew near us…