An animation for Anouche, one of the five new candles from Maison Francis Kurkdjian. ("Anouche rekindles the pleasures of the small apartment where I lived for a few years with my maternal grandparents, not far from the Vincennes castle, in the neighborhood of Paris. This candle captures the unforgettable memory of rose petal jam, one of my grandmother’s secret recipes.")
Online fragrance shopping
New at bloomingdales: Jo Malone Orange Bitters.
New at selfridges (UK): Bond no. 9 New York Nights & Dubai Gold.
Friday scent of the day 10/27
Happy World Day for Audiovisual Heritage! It’s also Guessing Game Friday. Our community project for today: describe your perfume to us, OR, give your perfume the name it ought to have had, and we’ll see if we can guess what it is.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
My fragrance: sumi ink, spices, incense. Really, I would have called it Ink and put it in a Japanese ink bottle…
The daily lemming
An advent calendar that didn't make it into Part 1 and Part 2: Antica Farmacista's 12 Days of Antica. Comes with 3 votive candles and a wick trimmer, bar soap, body wash, hand cream and more, including a 100 ml diffuser. $178 at Antica Farmacista.
Dirty gym socks wrapped around a rotten steak
“Well, I’d say it smells like dirty gym socks wrapped around a rotten steak,” said Jonathan Goodrich, an associate director at the garden. “Yeah, I’d say that’s pretty descriptive.”
[...]“It releases the smell in waves,” Goodrich said. “It pulses, in a sense.”
— Maladora, a corpse flower at the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley, has bloomed. Read more at ‘Gym socks and rotten steak:’ Corpse flower blooms at UC garden at Berkeley News.