Michael Kors has launched Island Palm Beach, the fifth and latest flanker to 2005’s Michael Kors Island. As Kors noted, Palm Beach is “the closest thing America has to Capri”…
Bunch o’ limited edition collector bottles 2010, part 19
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US.
From MAC, a solid perfume pendant designed by Marcel Wanders and filled with the MAC Air of Style fragrance. $30 at Nordstrom…
Anya’s Garden Amberess & Light ~ new fragrances
Indie natural house Anya’s Garden has launched two fragrances, Amberess and Light. The new scents were developed in conjunction with owner Anya McCoy’s Outlaw Perfume Project…
Plenty of choice
Among contemporary fragrances, the selection in woods has grown tremendously, and a woman who wants to eschew "sugar and spice and everything nice" has plenty of choice.
— Victoria Frolova of Bois de Jasmin, in How exotic woods are getting a feminine makeover at the Financial Times.
L’Artisan Parfumeur in Covent Garden ~ shopping for perfume in London
Over the last year or so, L’Artisan Parfumeur have been gradually closing down their standalone stores in London. There are no longer stores in Marylebone High Street or Royal Exchange, and the third store in Cale Street will soon go too, I learned. Presumably this is linked to the fact that L’Artisan is now stocked by SpaceNK, which gives them a broader distribution without the overhead of London premises.
However, there is still one L’Artisan shop still in London for now — the newish store in Covent Garden. It’s in the space left vacant by the demise of B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful, or rather in the upper half of that space — the space is shared with another business that gets the intriguing caverned cellar downstairs…