Cartier has launched La Panthère Elixir, a new flanker to 2014’s La Panthère fragrance for women…
Hinoki & cedarwood
A quick spot for Jo Malone Hinoki & Cedarwood.
Wednesday scent of the day 9/4
It’s Hump Day plus National Wildlife Day. Birthdays: Mary Renault, Richard Wright, Beyoncé. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m taking community project points in L’Artisan Parfumeur Timbuktu.
Reminder: on 9/6 we’ll do Jolie Laide Friday…
Ormonde Jayne Kashmir ~ new fragrance
British niche line Ormonde Jayne has launched Kashmir, a new addition to the La Route de Soie collection…
Ripe with olfactory potential
The product of that ambition can be sampled in Aqua Tofana, a new opera by the young Sardinian composer Gaia Aloisi, which premieres as part of London’s Tête à Tête festival next month. It tells the true story of Giulia Tofana, an alchemist in 17th-century Italy whose poison enabled women to dispatch abusive or inconvenient husbands. It is ripe with olfactory potential for McCartney, who has been tasked with creating the “deadly” potion that gives the opera its name.
— Sarah McCartney of 4160 Tuesdays scents an opera. Read more in Perfumer Sarah McCartney is making the arts smell good at Financial Times.