
Italian niche house Maria Candida Gentile has launched Aqua Forte, a new fragrance…
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Italian niche house Maria Candida Gentile has launched Aqua Forte, a new fragrance…
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Happy Almost-Friday! Birthdays: Ben Jonson, Julia Margaret Cameron, Jacques Cousteau, Gene Wilder, Hugh Laurie. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m adding depth to the rose note in Hermès Rose Ikebana with a very mild underlayer of Tauer Rose Flash. I’m quite pleased with the outcome.
Reminder: 6/12 will be Boost me up Friday…
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Djedi, a Guerlain fragrance from 1926, hasn’t been in production for decades. The formula — a dry, smoky, animalic composition built around vetiver and civet, and conceived by Jacques Guerlain in the grip of the Egyptomania that followed the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb — bears no resemblance to anything sold in a department store today, which is precisely why the surviving bottles sell for upward of €3,000 on the resale market. What is inside those bottles at this point is a matter of some debate. Buyers purchase them anyway.
— Read more in Discontinued Perfume Has Become the Investment Collector’s New Birkin at Ethos.
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Trudon's La Promeneuse "Lantern Diffuser" ("...a beautiful decorative object with the key style points that Trudon is famous for: handmade green fluted glass and solid brass trim... After placing a wax cameo on the ceramic dish, light the tealight candle beneath it. The heated cameo will melt and gently diffuse its fragrance into the room") is lovely but spendy at $400 (at Ministry of Scent). Presumably if you have any sort of wax melt device you could use the brand's cameos, and if I had one I'd buy the Madurai Indian Jasmine, 4 for $49 (at Candle Delirium). But I don't, so money saved, again.
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Carolina Herrera will launch La Bomba Intensa, a new fragrance for women. La Bomba Intensa is a flanker to last year’s La Bomba…