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Posted by Robin on 19 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Storm Reid for Coach Gold. 

Thursday scent of the day 6/19

Posted by Robin on 19 June 2025 127 Comments

Happy Almost-Friday and happy Juneteenth! Birthdays: Blaise Pascal, Lou Gehrig, Pauline Kael, Salman Rushdie, Ann Wilson. What fragrance are you wearing?

Today I’m trying to pair the 1966 song Good Vibrations, which Wikipedia tells us was “the costliest and longest-to-record pop single at the time” and “one of the most influential pop recordings in history”. Every perfume I thought of seemed inadequate to the soaring vocal harmonies so I decided to concentrate on the lyric “a blossom world we find”, and I’m in the lovely blossom world of Neela Vermeire Créations Pichola.

Reminder: 6/20 is Brian Wilson’s birthday (and the summer solstice)…

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Puig snapped up a majority stake

Posted by Robin on 19 June 2025 Leave a Comment

Puig snapped up a majority stake in the brand in 2022 and, at the time, Byredo was reportedly valued at around €1bn.

As part of the deal, Gorham’s leadership continued as Chief Creative Officer, a role Puig said was agreed until June this year, accordintg to reports from WWD and Business of Fashion.

— Read more in Byredo founder Ben Gorham departs cult fragrance brand at Cosmetics Business.

Zadig & Voltaire This is Her! Burning Love & This is Him! Burning Love ~ new fragrances

Posted by Robin on 18 June 2025 5 Comments

French ready-to-wear line Zadig & Voltaire has launched This is Her! Burning Love and This is Him! Burning Love, new limited edition flankers to 2016’s This is Her! and This is Him! respectively. The duo was inspired by summer dates and cocktails at sunset…

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The daily lemming

Posted by Robin on 18 June 2025 Leave a Comment

From Supergoop, Glow Oil SPF 50 Body Oil in the limited edition Sunkissed Coconut scent: "An ultra-nourishing, non-greasy body oil with sun protection that absorbs quickly, locks in moisture & leaves skin with a visibly gorgeous glow...Sunkissed Coconut is a relaxing amber wood scent featuring milky coconut, whipped vanilla and smooth green fig". $40 for 148 ml at Ulta.

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