It’s Tuesday and New Year’s Eve, plus the 7th day of Christmas (swans a swimming) and the 6th day of Kwanzaa. (Plus, quick PSA: the damage poll is coming up on Friday.) What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing Diptyque Tam Dao layered with Diptyque Philosykos.
Reminder: on 1/3, wear a fragrance to match Classic Blue, Pantone’s color of the year for 2020…
Patchouli, because it has many facets. It’s kind of an olfactive tiger; something that you cannot totally dominate. You don’t know if it’s dominating you, or if you’re dominating it.
— Perfumer Jacques Cavallier on the scent of heartbreak. Read more in The Master Perfumer That Smells Like a Baby at The Cut.
Imagine a spotlight trained on a woman at the center of a dark stage. Music starts — something melodic and gentle — and the performer sways in her diaphanous gown. After this dreamy introduction, burlesque horns kick in, and, in a move you’ve seen a hundred times, the woman rips away her evening dress to reveal a strapless sequinned get-up. That’s Parfum d’Empire Immortelle Corse in a nutshell.
Maybe comparing the fragrance to a Broadway number is going too far, since it’s more sun-kissed peasant1 than Liza Minelli, but you get the idea…
Happy last Monday of 2019! It’s also Bacon Day, the sixth day of Christmas (geese a-laying) and the fifth day of Kwanzaa. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m trying to wake up in Donna Karan Black Cashmere.
Reminder: on 1/3, wear a fragrance to match Classic Blue, Pantone’s color of the year for 2020…
Saturday is the fourth day of Christmas (four calling birds), the third day of Kwanzaa, and the seventh night of Hanukkah. We’re celebrating everything with our same old open thread poll. Talk about anything you like — the fragrance you’re wearing today, what you’re hoping to see on fragrance counters in 2020, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…