From Loewe, limited edition collector bottles of Loewe 001 Woman, Earth and Agua Drop with handmade porcelain flower caps by Lladró. $1050 each for 100 ml at Loewe.
Parfums de Marly Palatine ~ new fragrance
French niche line Parfums de Marly has launched Palatine, a new gourmand fruity floral fragrance…
Tuesday scent of the day 9/10
It’s Tuesday and the September 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance nope, I’ve got my days wrong! Birthdays today: Elsa Schiaparelli, Karl Lagerfeld, José Feliciano, Colin Firth. RIP James Earl Jones. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m (mentally) extending a long weekend at the beach with Guerlain Terracotta Le Parfum. Tea at the moment is Ahmad Cardamom.
Reminder: on 9/13, wear the fragrance from the oldest bottle in your collection that you bought new…
Flowers that would otherwise go to waste
At Bridge Farm Group in England’s Lincolnshire County, rows and rows of roses, petunias, and marigolds fill the company’s 60-acre glasshouse. About 90 million such plants will make their way to retailers across the UK—but not all of them will be sold. Now, researchers are figuring out how to turn the flowers that would otherwise go to waste into product fragrances, through a partnership between the grower, Unilever, and the University of Nottingham.
— Read more in The floral scent of your body wash is likely made from petrochemicals. This pilot is trying it with flowers instead at Fast Company.
Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ transitional fragrances, fall 2024
The ninth edition of a poll about transitional fragrances: what are your favorite fragrances as summer turns to fall this year? What scent makes you happy as the nights get chilly and the days take on that crisp edge? And tell us what perfume you wish you owned for chilly weather.
(Or, if you’re like me, tell us what fragrances will allow you to hang on to that summer feeling just a little bit longer. And of course, if winter is turning to spring where you are, adjust the questions accordingly.)
Or, as always, talk about something else…