French niche line Jardins D’Écrivains has launched Peau d’Âne, a new unisex fragrance inspired by the French fairytale Donkey Skin, published by Charles Perrault in 1695…
Do you believe in wonder
Bvlgari for Save The Children.
Wednesday scent of the day 11/30
Happy Hump Day! Birthdays today: Mark Twain, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Shirley Chisholm, Dick Clark. What fragrance are you wearing?
Still commando, still sick. Might get better by Friday, but it sure doesn’t feel like it. Just remembered I forgot the teapot yesterday.
Reminder: on 12/2 we’re doing Ancient Resins…
What to give the woman who has everything
What to give the woman who has everything? It’s a question that consumed Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain when he was tasked with creating a fragrance to commemorate Empress Eugénie’s marriage to Napoleon III, in 1853. While the perfumer got to work on blending notes of bergamot, lemon, neroli, and petitgrain, he turned to the master glassmaker Pochet du Courval to design a bottle that was as stylish and memorable as its spirited young recipient.
— Read more in The Surprisingly Rich History of Guerlain’s Bee Bottle at W Magazine.
The (almost) daily lemming
From Paddywax, Persimmon Chestnut Incense to burn in a pink Ceramic Townhouse. Marked down to $14.40 at Nordstrom.