Giorgio Armani has launched In Love With You for Women and Stronger With You Intensely for Men. The new fragrances are followups to 2017’s Because It’s You for Women and Stronger With You for Men…
Wednesday scent of the day 12/26
Hump Day, Boxing Day, Candy Cane Day and the first day of Kwanzaa. Happy birthday to Caroll Edwin Spinney — thank you for all those years of Big Bird and Oscar! What fragrance are you wearing?
I am commando while I do some day-after-Christmas chores. I will probably pick an afternoon fragrance from the comments.
Reminder: on 12/28 we’re doing Best of 2018…
A whole new world
We actually got rather burned out on perfume after we wrote the first guide where we reviewed about 1,800 perfumes more, so we weren't paying very much attention for a few years. And when we looked back at the department stores, it was absolutely amazing what had changed. When we wrote the guide in 2007, celebrity perfume was all the rage, and a lot of things were discontinued, changing, things didn't smell the same. ... We were really depressed about it. And then when we went back to the shops, suddenly it was a whole new world of niche perfume...
— Tania Sanchez talks to NPR's Marketplace. Read the transcript, or listen to the radio spot, at What's that smell? A rise in "perfume culture".
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holidays! We’ll be back tomorrow.
In the meantime, feel free to talk about whatever you like: what perfume you’re wearing today, what you’re cooking (or eating) over the holidays, anything at all.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Angela’s Fragrance Highlights of 2018
This year, 2018, marks my twelfth year writing about perfume. I’ve passed a period where I bought a bottle of fragrance a month, and I no longer need to study my way through the classics to understand fragrance benchmarks. I’ve given up on trying to sniff most new releases, and I only bought two new bottles of perfume this year. But I still wear perfume every day. In other words, by now I’m living with fragrance the way I’ll probably live with it the rest of my life.
Now that I’ve lowered your expectations, here are my perfume highlights for the year…