Please comment if you've ever tried any body products from Yard Etc! I'm tempted by all of it, but especially the Green Tomato Hand Balm ("A nourishing hand balm that makes your sore hands soft and smooth again ... "fragranced with an excitingly aromatic and fresh scent of unripe, green tomatoes." Other fragrances include Lemon Nettle, Oak Moss and Dog Rose. 70 ml for $14 at Beautyhabit.
Bloom1 is one of the first two Gucci fragrances conceptualized by Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele. As with Gucci Guilty Absolute Pour Homme, Michele worked with perfumer Alberto Morillas. In each of these fragrances, Morillas used a new, “natural” ingredient; Guilty Absolute Pour Homme contains an extract of Nootka cypress and Bloom presents Rangoon creeper (“harvested” via headspace technology in India — so claims Gucci).
Bloom begins with a penetrating, slightly fruity jasmine/tuberose accord…
It is hot here today so this does not sound appealing, but hopefully by the time it is widely available (reportedly, October) it will sound better: The Body Shop Vanilla Pumpkin, a limited edition, which will be available in the usual brand formats including the Body Butter shown above, plus hand cream, shower gel, etc. "Inspired by fresh-baked Halloween goodies, our special edition Vanilla Pumpkin Body Butter features a delightful blend of autumnal scents. Give your body all day moisture..."
Hump Day! Plus, Rum Day and Madonna’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
Huge thanks to everyone who offered sympathy yesterday! I am commando, again. I did wear Diptyque Tam Dao last night and will probably put some on again this afternoon. We do not return home until tomorrow morning so posting will be light today.
Reminder: 8/18 will be Fugly Friday…
More limited edition collector fragrance bottles, with the usual disclaimers: in most of these cases, the juice is unchanged, just the bottle is “special” (or not, as the case may be), and some of these may not be available in the US. Today’s post includes special edition bottles from Lanvin, Marc Jacobs and Jean Paul Gaultier.
From Lanvin, the Tropical Flower edition of Éclat d’Arpège: “It whisks the senses away on a tropical journey to distant lands, reclaimed by luxuriant nature in a flush of sparkling colours.” In 50 ml…