Courtesy of YouTube, a little perfume porn for Monday morning: a shop in Paris where they restore and sell vintage perfume bottles. If anyone knows the name of this shop, please comment!
Benetton White Night ~ new fragrances
Benetton has introduced White Night, a new duo of fragrances for men and women “…with vibrant and magnetic notes to celebrate the fleeting magic of white nights”.
White Night Woman features notes of clementine, kiwi, bergamot, datura, night jasmine, mimosa, sandalwood, panna cotta accord and white musk…
Badger Body Butter in Antique Rose ~ scented body product review
As the winter continues, I’m trying to heal my chapped hands and ragged cuticles, and I want to prevent those tiny, painful cracks that sometimes emerge on the tips of my fingers during freezing-cold weather. My latest weapon against these aggravating little seasonal afflictions is Badger Body Butter. It has a base of natural ingredients, including jojoba, olive oil, cocoa butter, and beeswax, and its Antique Rose fragrance is mixed from essences of rose otto, patchouli, cardamom, and blood orange.
If you are already a fan of Badger’s popular Chai Rose lip balm (with its scent of cardamom, rose, and vanilla), you will most likely enjoy this Body Butter. The two products aren’t identical, but they smell similar enough to please the same noses…
Acqua di Biella Ca' Luna ~ new fragrance
Italian niche house Acqua di Biella has launched Ca' Luna:
Ca' Luna, refuge of dreams, memories and ambitions, site of exalting love. Faithful and silent custodian of old traditions handed down from generation to generation. On the sunlit terrace the seasons of life's rituals flow sweetly. Magnificently adorned with fragrant flowers, geraniums, old palm trees, massive aloe plants, Ca' Luna lets one see the passage of time though its old walls, covered in lichen and silver-toned ivy…
Molton Brown Naran Ji Air room spray ~ home fragrance review
Molton Brown is a line of products I'm not terribly familiar with, although my sense is that they are generally quite good, if not outrageously wonderful. I occasionally come across them in the bathrooms of upscale hotels, or when I sneak into a business class bathroom on an overseas flight. I love the English look and feel about them, a sort of steady and reassuring quality, unflappable with a stiff upper lip.
Several years ago I came across their Naran Ji Liquid Hand Wash and Soothing Hand Lotion in the ladies room in the lobby of the Peninsula hotel in New York. I used it with great interest and enjoyment, and my lingering recollection is an experience of quite tenacious orange blossom that softly cocooned my hands in a subtle silken luxury…