It’s Monday, and as consolation, World Nutella Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Banane to go with my (imaginary, since I haven’t got any) nutella toast.
Reminder: 2/9 is Lunar New Year’s Eve…
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It’s Monday, and as consolation, World Nutella Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Banane to go with my (imaginary, since I haven’t got any) nutella toast.
Reminder: 2/9 is Lunar New Year’s Eve…
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For her graduation project, a men’s ready-to-wear line based on cashmere and linen, she created a multisensory show in which each garment was associated with a scent. Her proposal did not go unnoticed. After graduating, she received two job offers: one to design clothes at Martin Margiela’s atelier, and another to be a researcher of olfactory trends at Firmenich, the Swiss giant that dominates the perfume and flavor business. “I took the second one. Every morning, a senior perfumer had me smell raw materials. One day he gave me a bottle of triplal, a herbaceous, green leafy aroma, very similar to that of pine or freshly cut grass. It carried me... I don’t know where, but it carried me. That’s when I thought: ‘I want to dedicate myself to this, to creating fragrances that carry people.’”
— Read more in Delphine Jelk, the perfumer who creates custom fragrances that cost over $135,000 at El País USA edition.
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Welcome to our annual winter reading poll! Tell us about a great book to curl up with on a frosty winter night, and what fragrance we should wear while reading it. (Or, do what I do and record here everything you have read since the last reading poll. And if you want more recommendations, scrolling through the literature tag will bring up all the older reading polls.)
My recent reading…
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One of these days I will break down and buy a Loewe candle, but which? I want beetroot, I want incense, I want orange blossom. The latest, Roasted Hazelnut: "The ‘Roasted Hazelnut’ scented candle has an extra-high-intensity fragrance with a woody, nutty aroma evocative of the unique fragrance of roasted hazelnuts: a culinary delicacy with a distinctively rich flavour often used in desserts and confectionary. Its deep, spicy and smoky aspects unfold to reveal sweet notes of brown sugar over time. Crafted in natural wax with a single cotton wick, the candle is presented in a black glazed terracotta vessel with a stamped base." The 170g is $120 (or 610g for $245; 2120g for $495). The matching 150 ml room spray is $135, and there's also a new Mushroom home fragrance.
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Dolce & Gabbana has launched K Intense, a flanker to 2019’s K by Dolce & Gabbana, and Q Intense, a flanker to 2023’s Q by Dolce & Gabbana…