Tommy Bahama has launched Maritime, a new fragrance for men…
Have yourself a luxury Christmas 2016
Buy buy buy! Holiday videos from Bottega Veneta, (and below the jump,) Louis Vuitton and Dior.
Vanilla with a hint of cocoa
Featuring soothing imagery of glittering tropical waters and a scent strip that smelled like vanilla with a hint of cocoa, they looked like a standard perfume ad of the time. But Chelsea wasn’t a perfume. It was, in the words of its marketers, “The first cigarette that smells good.”
— Read more at The Failed Attempt to Market Sweet-Smelling Cigarettes to Women at Atlas Obscura.
2 for Tuesday: Tauerville Tuberose Flash & Vilhelm Parfumerie Purple Fig
Brief reviews of two recent-ish indie / niche fragrances: Tauerville Tuberose Flash and Vilhelm Parfumerie Purple Fig.
If you’ve smelled anything recently that we should all know about, do add your own brief review in the comments!
Tauerville Tuberose Flash
When I reviewed Tauer’s Sotto La Luna Tuberose, I said “it smells to me like tuberose right away, and it goes on smelling like tuberose straight through, and more so than usual, a blow-by-blow of the proceedings seems pointless”. I could say the same of Tuberose Flash…
Online fragrance shopping
New at escentual (UK): Agent Provocateur Lace, Lubin Kismet, Comme des Garcons Blackpepper.
New at indiescents: Baruti Dama Koupa.
New at neimanmarcus: Atelier Cologne Camelia Intrepide.
New at saksfifthavenue: Le Labo The Noir 29.
New at twistedlily: Maria Candida Gentile Lankaran Forest, Sauf line.