A week late, but from Dior, two May Day videos. First up, a bottle porn video for the re-release of the Baccarat bottle for Diorissimo. It is a numbered limited edition, and sorry but I don’t know where to get one or what it costs. Below the jump, perfumer Francis Kurkdjian on Diorissimo (in French, you can generate English subtitles in the YouTube settings).
Tuesday scent of the day 5/7
It’s (Teapot) Tuesday. Birthdays: Robert Browning, Gary Cooper, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Angela Carter, Peter Carey. PSA: the splitmeet will take place on 18 May, the same day as the Haiku Challenge. What fragrance are you wearing?
Points for me this morning in Comme des Garçons Ouarzazate. Tea at the moment is Art of Tea Tali’s Masala Chai + Harney’s CTC Assam.
Reminder: 5/10 is the International Day of Argania, so we’re off to Morocco…
To reawaken these clothes through smell
To reawaken these clothes through smell, the team from Sissel Tolaas Studio extracted scent molecules from the fabrics, then used a microfilter to trap the air and moisture. Eventually, they analyzed the molecules to identify and replicate the smells. Some of the smells you’ll find include odors found in tobacco, bitter drinks, high-end skin products, roses, polluted environments, and toothpaste. The technology is so advanced, that it even determined aromas associated with human hair and human skin that had been in contact with a dog.
— Smell artist Sissel Tolaas created the fragrances for The Costume Institute’s spring 2024 exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, which runs May 10–September 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Read more in The Met Museum’s new ‘Sleeping Beauties’ fashion exhibit is a wonderland for the senses at TimeOut, and see also Sissel Tolaas: The Certified Expert Of All Things Smell Is On A Quest To Sharpen Your Fifth Sense at Pin-Up.
Lazy weekend poll ~ spring reading list, edition 5
(Update: I forgot to say that this is a 3 day poll! Use the comments section to talk about whatever you like on Monday, and there will be a new scent of the day poll on Tuesday.)
Welcome to our 5th annual spring reading poll! Please recommend a great book to add to our reading lists, and tell us 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.
(Or, as always, just talk about something else.)
What I’ve read since our winter reading poll…
When greatness calls
Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees for Ralph Lauren Polo 67.