Voting is now open for the 8th Annual Basenotes Fragrance Awards. This year, the awards are sponsored by Fragrancenet, and one lucky voter will win a $250 Fragrancenet gift card.
The categories include best new fragrance, best overall fragrance, best designer fragrance, best niche fragrance, best celebrity fragrance, best fragrance blog and more. Voting is open until 12/31, and the winners will be announced next February.
Find more awards and award winners at the Fragrance Awards page.
It shouldn’t take rocket science to figure out how to put on perfume. You just spritz it on your wrists, rub them on each other and behind your ears, and you’re good to go, right? Maybe. But since you’ve spent almost a hundred dollars for that fabulous bottle of Guerlain Chamade or Chanel Eau Première, you may as well do a little research on how to wear it well.
Cloud of scent or targeted sprays? Some people spray a mist of perfume in the air and then walk through it. They say that the scent then disperses evenly over their bodies…
New at imaginationperfumery: Paul Smith Rose, Hermes Kelly Caleche Christmas Box Special Edition, Caron Montaigne, Givenchy Les Mythiques (Eau de Givenchy, Givenchy III, L'Interdit, Le De Givenchy).
Deal at lizzorn: free shipping on all orders through 12/20, no coupon code needed.
Deal at loccitane: free shipping on all orders through 11/28, no coupon code needed.
Deal at miomia: take 25% off all orders with coupon code miomiacandy, good through 11/29.
New at neimanmarcus: Yves Saint Laurent Elle.
Roja Dove will be giving a lecture at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London on December 14 at 7:15 pm:
Roja Dove, Maestro of Fragrance and the world’s only Professeur des Parfums reveals the stories behind great couture perfume creations including Diorissimo for Christian Dior, L’air du Temps by Nina Ricci and Balenciaga’s Le Dix. Discover how raw materials are combined and refined into uniquely named scents, presented in carefully designed bottles and enticingly offered to the wearer. Provoking, appealing, evocative; Roja Dove explains why fragrance is our most intimate layer of dress.
Tickets (£7.50 for adults) can be purchased at the Victoria & Albert Museum website. (via vam.ac.uk, found via designtaxi)
Simon Constantine of Lush's sister company, B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful, talks about his new fragrances, Breath of God, Inhale & Exhale. Includes some interesting footage of the harvesting of raw materials, including sandalwood, neroli and rose.
Update: this video has been removed from YouTube, sorry!