French niche line Parfums de Marly has launched Delina La Rosée, a new watery woody floral fragrance for women. Delina La Rosée is a flanker to 2017’s Delina, and follows 2018’s Delina Exclusif…
Monday scent of the day 1/18
It’s Blue Monday and Martin Luther King Day. Birthdays: AA Milne, Philippe Starck. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Starck Paris Peau de Pierre.
Reminder: 1/22 will be Fairy Tale Friday…
Its numbers are dwindling
The corpse flower isn’t doing much better in its native home of Sumatra, where its numbers are dwindling because of deforestation for lumber and crops. In 2018, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed the plant as endangered. There are fewer than 1,000 individuals still in the wild.
— Read more in The Corpse Flower Is Not in the Mood: Saving the world’s stinkiest plant would be easier if it had any interest in reproducing at The Atlantic.
Lazy weekend poll ~ stepping back from the edge, episode 9
Our ninth annual ‘stepping back’ poll: can this group of shameless enablers help each other not buy perfume? Let’s find out.
Name a perfume you’ve been itching to buy but suspect you might not need, and tell us why you think it might not really be a good use of your money. Maybe everyone will talk you out of it. Or, maybe not so much.
If you participated in this poll last year, tell us if you ended up buying the fragrance anyway…
Bvlgari Allegra collection ~ new fragrances
Bvlgari has launched the Allegra collection, with five fragrances “expressing colorful and intense Italian emotions” (Dolce Estasi, Fantasia Veneta, Fiori d’Amore, Riva Solare and Rock’n’Rome) and five “magnifying” essences for layering (Bergamot, Musk, Patchouli, Rose and Vanilla).