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2021 / Browsing by date: March 2021

The (almost) daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 31 March 2021 4 Comments

A cheap thrill: Mango Coriander Energizing bar soap. "Our chain of experts, unique since 1959, has selected and combined Botanical Glycerin, Coriander Essential Oil and a Mango extract just for you. Skin is gently cleansed and delicately perfumed." $4.50 for 80g at Yves Rocher.

Grandiflora Saskia ~ new perfume

Posted by Robin on 31 March 2021 2 Comments

Last year, Grandiflora introduced Saskia, a new fragrance named for brand founder Saskia Havekes…

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The Rebirth of Spring

Posted by Robin on 31 March 2021 2 Comments

French paper and textile designer Lucie Touré creates the collector bottle for Guerlain's Cherry Blossom Millésime 2021.

Wednesday scent of the day 3/31

Posted by Robin on 31 March 2021 203 Comments

It’s Hump Day and the last day of March. (PSA: we’ll be receiving a visit from Donatella tomorrow, plus don’t forget to rabbit!) What fragrance are you wearing?

I loved the 4 books — Chicken Soup with Rice, Pierre, One was Johnny, Alligators All Around — in Maurice Sendak’s Nutshell Library when I was a child, and I loved reading the books to my child. I did not know about the Really Rosie musical, based on the books with music by Carole King, until I was an adult, but I played it for my son until long after he aged out of it and asked me to please stop.

What perfume would fit the simple counting book One was Johnny? Well, 7 is a blackbird that pecked poor Johnny’s nose, and there is a banana in the book as well, so I’m smelling delicious in Blackbird Y06-S. Lame, I know.

Reminder: 4/2 is International Children’s Book Day…

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Really soothing and comforting

Posted by Robin on 31 March 2021 2 Comments

I cannot go to bed without showering, and this is gonna sound a bit like marketing but it’s not, I promise — I love putting on our Eau Parfumée Au Thé Vert, our green tea from our eau de cologne collection. That smell is just divine. It’s really soothing and comforting; it just surrounds you and puts you in your little bubble, so I find it extremely relaxing.

— Luis Miguel Gonzalez Sebastiani, the general manger of Bvlgari Parfums, on the the last thing he smells before he goes to bed at night. Read more in The Perfume Collection That Smells Like a Vacation in Italy at The Cut.

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