Happy Almost-Friday, and happy Almost-July! What fragrance are you wearing?
Our vacation is over. I am leaving for home today — there won’t be any more posts today, but I’ll be back tomorrow. I’m commando, and will probably stay that way until I get home, when I’ll put on something by Olivia Giacobetti.
Reminder: on 7/1, wear a fragrance by Olivia Giacobetti, if you have one…
In Rossinière, Switzerland, the painter Balthus lived at the Grand Chalet — and grand it is. The Grand Chalet is the largest chalet in Switzerland and one of the biggest wooden residences in Europe. On the Grand Chalet’s grounds was a huge linden tree that provided shade and fragrance (supposedly, Balthus loved the scent of linden); Astier de Villatte just released a linden blossom fragrance inspired by this tree. Astier de Villatte describes Grand Chalet, the perfume:
An enchanting smell escapes the bottle and suddenly fills the air: it is the age-old linden that shades the garden of painter Balthus’s atelier, at Grand Chalet, high up in the Swiss alps. A tribute to the artist and his favourite scent, bask in this Cologne’s delightful redolence of honey, milk and slight hints of lemon…
Bvlgari has launched Man Black Orient, a new flanker to 2014’s Man in Black, which was a flanker to 2010’s Bvlgari Man. Man Black Orient follows the recently introduced Man Black Cologne…
Artist Howard Lee, back with more drawings for Paco Rabanne Olympéa Aqua and Invictus Aqua.
