Italian niche line Acqua di Parma will launch Note di Colonia V, a new addition to the opera-inspired Note di Colonia collection…
The daily lemming
A lemming for fans of Carolina Herrera Good Girl: the Fantastic Pink collector bottle, all done up in "the most dazzling pink glitter". $124 for 80 ml at Macy's.
Wednesday scent of the day 1/15
Hump Day, and Martin Luther King’s birthday (the Martin Luther King Day holiday is next Monday). Depending on where you are and who you ask, you might be halfway through meteorological winter. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m staying warm (and it’s really not all that cold here anyway) in Diptyque Volutes. It does list immortelle as a note, in case any immortelle-haters are looking for a painless way to participate in this week’s community project.
Reminder: on 1/17, wear a fragrance with immortelle, if you have one…
Aromatic efforts
A male orchid bee zips around the rainforest, a flash of iridescent green against an equally emerald background. The bee stops at various flowers, fungi and dead trees, collecting fragrant particles and storing them in pockets in its hind legs. ...it flitters about, using its wings to disperse a bouquet of perfumes into the air.
The aromatic efforts are all for the sake of attracting a mate.
— Read more in A single gene for scent reception separates two species of orchid bees at Phys.org.
Take Your Chance, again
A new promotion for Chanel Chance and the four new limited edition Crayons de Parfum (Four 1.2g crayons in Chance, Chance Eau Tendre, Chance Eau Vive and Chance Eau Fraiche, $80).