Trudon has launched Isla, a new unisex fragrance…
Tuesday scent of the day 5/21
It’s Tuesday, World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development and World Meditation Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m commando for a doctor appointment later this morning. Tea at the moment is Kusmi Anastasia.
Reminder: 5/24 is International Tiara Day…
They all want it
“It’s like a status thing right now — they all want it,” she said. “Just like the girls want this high-end skin care and body care, this is like the boys’ version.”
Teenage boys have long turned to mists and sprays to drown out the first whiffs of puberty, but some even younger adolescents — whose parents have the cash, that is — are now becoming infatuated by designer colognes with price tags in the hundreds of dollars.
— Read more in When Did Teen Boys Get a Nose for $300 Cologne? at The New York Times.
Lazy 3-day weekend poll ~ Haiku challenge 2024!
(PSA: the splitmeet is now open for business!)
Today, our fifteenth annual Haiku Challenge (if you like, you can check out past years for inspiration). We’re also happy to include other forms of poetry if haiku don’t inspire you. Have a perfume-related limerick or a sonnet you’d like to share? Please do.
If you’re writing a haiku, pick a perfume or a perfume house (or really, anything related to perfume), and write a haiku about it.
Use the simplified English form — your haiku should have three lines, the first line with five syllables, the second line with seven syllables and the third line with five syllables. You can put the perfume name in the title if that makes it easier, and at any rate, don’t stress over the rules of traditional haiku — this is just for fun.
Or, as always, just talk about something else…
The splitmeet, episode 21
The splitmeet (episode 21) is open for business. PLEASE read the instructions! For people who would like to chat in addition to, or instead of, splitting, there will be a poll along shortly.
Don’t know what a bottle split is, or you know but you’ve never tried it? See here.
Please note that the intention of the splitmeet is to split newly purchased bottles of perfume, not to sell decants of fragrances already in your collection! Anyone can join a split, but only people with current, active reader accounts may host splits. Update: in other words, you cannot host a split if you have never commented here before the day the splitmeet opens…