Juicy Couture will launch Majestic Woods , a new fragrance for women, in March…
The daily lemming
A rare cheap thrill + charity + cute packaging mashup lemming — L'Occitane's Shea Butter Violet Solidarity Balm: "Enriched with shea butter, this violet fragranced balm helps nourish, soften and protect the lips, body and hair. In partnership with the UN Women, 100% of the profits from the sale of this balm will finance NGOs projects to promote women’s leadership in the world, with the support of the L'OCCITANE Foundation." $6 (how can you refuse?) for 20g.
Diesel Only The Brave High ~ new fragrance
Diesel has launched Only The Brave High. The new fragrance for men is a flanker to 2009’s Only The Brave, and follows 2016’s Only The Brave Extreme…
Lowest common denominator product
I know that Tom Ford was incredibly meticulous when he was creating Black Orchid, his first fragrance, and I know that Hermès works with some of the best noses in the business and is highly regarded among the fragrances connoisseurs. But in many other cases, you know that [mainstream scents] are lowest common denominator product that was made formulaically and probably dictated by business managers and not by perfumers themselves.
— Eugene Rabkin of StyleZeitgeist on the "boundary-pushing fragrances" from the cult fashion houses. Read more at Fashion's avant-garde find scent irresistible at Financial Review.
Nez: La Revue Olfactive ~ magazine review
To live is to breathe, to breathe is to smell.
Scent is a part of life, from our first seconds of existence when we recognize our mother’s smell, to our last years, when a familial scent can suddenly transport us far away, into a past we’d believed forgotten.
Everyone is fascinated by scent, but smelling isn’t a sense as obscure and complicated as one would have us believe. On the contrary, it is within each of us, forms a direct connection to our emotions, and only asks to be invited to express itself, to blossom and be set free. And it’s our modest ambition to offer you this introduction to the world through your nostrils!1
So begins the first issue of “Nez: La Revue Olfactive” (spring/summer 2016). Jeanne Doré, of the French perfume blog Auparfum, along with the design and publications team of Editions Le Contrepoint, started Nez. So far, it has been released twice a year, for two issues to date, both in French. Nez’s spring/summer 2017 issue, launching mid-April, will be the magazine’s first English-language version. For me, it will be a must-read…