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2016 / Browsing by date: April 2016

Lazy weekend poll ~ Sense of Smell Day & May Day 2016

Posted by Robin on 30 April 2016 327 Comments

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It’s Sense of Smell Day (and Alice B Toklas‘ birthday) on Saturday and May Day (don’t forget to wear lily of the valley!) on Sunday. We are celebrating with 5 questions. As always, answer as many or as few as you like, or just talk about something else entirely.

1. What fragrance are you wearing today?

2. What’s your favorite smell in nature?

3. What’s your favorite man-made (but not perfume) smell?

4. What do you think is the best fragrance released so far in 2016?

5. Tell us about some wonderful thing you’ve discovered this year. It can be anything: a movie, a beauty product, a time-saving device, a fitness program, a book — really, anything…

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The inventor of modern perfumery

Posted by Robin on 30 April 2016 7 Comments

A beautifully shot 5 minute tour through the life of François Coty, including some great vintage-perfume-bottle porn. For the bigger picture, read Perfume and Politics in the May 3, 1930 New Yorker.

Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 30 April 2016 Leave a Comment

New at bloomperfume (UK): Art de Parfum & Jazmin Sarai lines.

Deal at demeterfragrance: 15% off all orders through 5/3.

New at twistedlily: Gri Gri Perfumes line, selected Montale fragrances.

Ormonde Jayne Rose Gold ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 30 April 2016 13 Comments

Ormonde Jayne Rose Gold

British niche line Ormonde Jayne has launched Rose Gold, a new luxury fragrance exclusive to Harrods…

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Top 10 Spring Fragrances 2016

Posted by Erin on 29 April 2016 101 Comments

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I am vocal about disliking spring. Where I live, there are always a few days in late February that feel like an elaborate set-up from Punk’d. Like newborn babes, they come: the office mates, friendly neighbors, the recently retired. They peer up into the warming blue and wonder aloud, trying to remember which way a hapless groundhog waddled weeks ago. Please don’t take spring’s bait. This year it snowed in April in the colder areas of Europe and North America and fans and news writers seemed to blame poor departed Prince. Let’s face it, in Minneapolis anyway, it usually snows in April. And snow can be the least of our worries. I am a fan of heterogeneity — I like mixed drinks and mixed company, for example — but few phrases freeze the heart faster than that euphemism “mixed precipitation”. Spring also brings wind, rain, seasonal allergies and skies the color of dead fish. Yes, the vernal months provoke a rare ire in me.

And yet, looking over my April 2011 Top 10 and Robin’s post from last year on pretty spring florals, I’ve realized I have little cause to be so sour while wearing some of my favorite fragrances. Clutching roots and branches may grow from stony rubbish, as Eliot wrote, but I have hyacinth, lily-of-the-valley, magnolia, violets and iris to console me until mid-May…

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