Italian niche line Profumum has launched Gioiosa (Joyful), a new fragrance…
The daily lemming
From Glasshouse, a bar soap trio: "Give a little luxury this holiday season with our beautifully fragranced French triple-milled body bars...all wrapped up in festive gift box with joyful illustrations by Michelle Pereira". Three 95g bars (Lost in Amalfi / Sea Mist, Midnight in Milan / Saffron & Rose, A Tahaa Affair / Vanilla Caramel) for $30 at Smallflower.
Inside the dream
The trailer for Inside the Dream, a new documentary following perfumer Francis Kurkdjian as he creates J'Adore l'Or. In French with English subtitles; available for streaming on Amazon Prime now.
Friday scent of the day 12/1
Rabbit rabbit rabbit! Welcome to December. It’s also World AIDS Day and Rosa Parks Day. Birthdays: Rex Stout, Bette Midler, Richard Pryor. Our community project: wear a fragrance that will bring you peace, joy or good luck for the month.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I’m aiming for a month of comfort, in Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Butterbeer…
Perfumers categorize smells in a way similar to ranges of music
This weekend, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform the U.S. premiere of a new composition that asks: What’s that smell?
While writing “Ephemerae,” Peruvian composer Jimmy López Bellido learned that perfumers categorize smells in a way similar to ranges of music: high, middle, and low. So he wrote his concerto in three movements: the first is “Bloom” with its citrus floral tones, and the second is “Primal Forest,” evoking pine and lavender.
“The third one is called ‘Spice Bazaar,’” he said. “You have the feeling that you’re walking within a bazaar full of spices somewhere in the world, in an open-air market full of merchants and you’re infused with all these smells.”
— Read more in The scent of a symphony: The Philadelphia Orchestra premieres a new work about how music smells at WHYY.