A spot for Tom Ford Black Lacquer.
Trussardi Primo ~ new fragrance
Italian brand Trussardi has launched Primo, a new fragrance for men…
Friday scent of the day 9/6
Happy Jolie Laide Friday! (Also, National Coffee Ice Cream Day and National Read a Book Day.) Our community project for today: wear a jolie laide perfume, howsoever you wish to interpret the term (for help, though, you can see The Unfairest of Them All at The New York Times.) Thanks go to austenfan for the suggestion!
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 in the OG jolie laide fragrance, Guerlain Jicky…
A really ripe cheese
“We can learn to associate good things with ‘bad’ smells – if you smell a really ripe cheese on the London underground, that’s going to smell disgusting. But in a nice shop or at home, that smells delicious. We learn to attribute certain positive attachments to smells.” For one museum exhibition about the Roman empire, [Tasha] Marks created the scent of the purple tunics worn by the elite. The dye, Tyrian purple, was made from the mucus of a sea snail, “so when it got slightly wet, it would smell like fish, and that became a sign of excellence. It’s a learned response – this is the smell of luxury, this means expensive.”
— Read more in ‘There’s otter poo, dragon poo …’ The woman who can make you smell everything, from hell to your grandparents at The Guardian.
The daily lemming
A lemming for fans of Carolina Herrera Good Girl: two limited edition collector bottles. At left, the Colormania edition ("dressed in the House hues of red and pink"), £131 for 80 ml at Carolina Herrera UK. At right, the Sparkling Ice edition ("Dressed in shimmering ice-white and adorned with a sparkling snowflake"), $153 for 80 ml at Ulta.