Next month, Christian Dior will launch Hypnotic Poison Eau Secrète, a new flanker to 1998’s Hypnotic Poison, which was a flanker to 1985’s Poison…
Jean Paul Gaultier Le Beau Male ~ new fragrance
Jean Paul Gaultier will launch Le Beau Mâle in February. Le Beau Mâle is a fresher variation on 1995’s Le Mâle, and uses the same name as the brand’s masculine beauty range…
Perfumed Holidays
(For those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas, my apologies for this holiday-centric post. See you Thursday for more secular reading.)
Today is Christmas Eve, and a looser, more rambling post feels appropriate. Maybe you’re taking a break from wrassling dough for that mince pie, or cuing up some movies to relax by, or wrapping presents. Or maybe, like me, you’re contemplating what to wear that will accommodate a full tummy for the evening’s Feast of the Seven Fishes. The scents of Christmas — fir trees, wood smoke, Satsuma oranges, mulled cider — surround you. Sit down and relax a minute. Dial back your memory to holidays past.
Through the years, lots of readers have commented that they received their first special bottle of perfume at Christmas. The only perfume Santa has left under my tree was a Dana Chantilly gift pack, thanks to my Uncle Brian. One day not long after that Christmas, my mother took me and my sister to visit an elderly woman with long, gray hair. For this special excursion to town, I bathed in Chantilly bubble bath and followed it up with a slathering of Chantilly lotion and a splash of Chantilly Eau de Toilette. I swear I don’t know how we arrived at the woman’s house without being asphyxiated…
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays! Angela will have a post on Monday, then Now Smell This will be taking Tuesday and Wednesday off — we’ll be back on Thursday. In the meanwhile, feel free to talk about whatever you like: what perfume you’re wearing today, what you’re cooking (or eating) for the holidays, what you’ll buy on Boxing Day, anything at all.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Up for grabs: Aftelier Ancient Resins
What is it: a bottle of Ancient Resins body oil and hair elixir, courtesy of Mandy Aftel at Aftelier.
How do I get it: For a chance to win, leave a comment on the website telling us a) your favorite Aftelier fragrance or b) your favorite scented body product or c) your favorite incense perfume. Or go ahead and tell us all three.
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