New at barneys: Diptyque Florabellio (pre-order).
Deal at demeterfragrance: everything 20% off through 4/7, no coupon code needed.
New at luckyscent: Slumberhouse Kiste.
New at neimanmarcus: Agonist White Oud.
New at ulta: Estee Lauder Pleasures Floral & Bronze Goddess, Issey Miyake City Blossom.
Snare drums! I want to recreate the scent of snare drums – tssss tsssk tsstkaa tsskaa. Pink pepper, white pepper, something metallic and somewhat powdery for sure. Maybe a little Ionone Alpha? Ooh how about some Cashmeran? It’s always smelled “scratchy” to me. I think it would give it a soft grittiness. If only I could find an olfactive way to translate the space that occurs between each snare once one crashes into the other – instantaneously and simultaneously jumping right back off again in a millisecond.
— Dana El Masri, from Reflection Eternal at Odou Magazine. The article won the 2015 UK Jasmine Literary Award for magazines.
There are some oddball niche lines out there, but it’s hard to imagine any other mainstream brand the size of Lush — much less a mall chain the size of Lush (over 900 stores) — launching a fragrance collection under the name Death, Decay and Renewal. The individual fragrance descriptions emphasize the renewal part as much as the death and decay part (the collection is “inspired by the cyclical nature of life”, and do watch out for that ear worm), but still, it would be a surprise from anybody else.
Even then, I didn’t necessarily expect Death & Decay, one of the nine scents in the series,1 to smell quite so much like, well, death and decay…
