Now Smell This has had a long-overdue redesign. I feel I should apologize for leaving it so ugly for as long as I did, although of course I will think it looks ugly again in about a month, and some of you may not care for the way it looks even now.
General improvements: the site is now reasonably mobile responsive — it should function much, much better on mobile devices…
Swedish niche line Agonist Parfums has launched Dark Saphir, a new fragrance…
Hopefully the site will only be down for a few hours, but you never know. If I can, I'll have a poll loaded by early afternoon (Eastern US time), but if I can't get things working in time, apologies in advance!
If you’re a fan of high-end, luxury cosmetics, you’ve most likely heard of Terry de Gunzburg: makeup artist to photographers like Helmut Newton and Irving Penn, creative director of Yves Saint Laurent Beauté (and inventor of the Touche Eclat highlighter-concealer), founder of the eponymous By Terry makeup line. Gunzburg launched her first fragrance collection last year, and it recently arrived in the United States.
Gunzburg has said, “I wanted to reconnect with perfumes from the beginning of the century, like those of Guerlain and Robert Piguet — they were extravagant experiences. That’s not to say mine are dusty old fragrances. They’re contemporary — clean but not watery, opulent but not heavy.”1 I’ve been sampling her five fragrances one by one; today I’ll cover two of them, Parti Pris and Ombre Mercure…
The Fragrance Foundation Arabia has announced the winners of their 4th annual Fifi Awards Arabia. The winners are:
Arabian Prestige Male ~ Yves Saint Laurent Noble Leather
Arabian Prestige Female ~ Narciso Rodriquez for her…