A very “happy” Punctuation Day to you!!!! What fragrance are you wearing?
Me: a double Hermès sour, in layered Eau de Pamplemousse Rose and Eau de Rhubarbe Écarlate.
Reminder: on 9/27 we’re going to Flavortown…
The vivid crimson Etoile de Hollande rose
Rose & Cuir’s origin story begins in a verdant garden planted more than 70 years ago by Edmond Roudnitska, the perfumer behind such midcentury masterpieces as Diorella and Diorissimo, outside his Côte d’Azur studio. It was there that Roudnitska first smelled the vivid crimson Etoile de Hollande rose that inspired him to create Rose de Rochas for couturier Marcel Rochas in 1949, and there that, in 2018, Roudnitska’s son Michel happened to wave that long-discontinued eau under the discerning nostrils of [Frédéric] Malle and [Jean-Claude] Ellena.
— Read more at Jean-Claude Ellena Is the Picasso of Perfume at Town & Country.
Musée International de la Parfumerie (and a Story)
“Better lucky than smart,” Beverly said. I certainly felt lucky. I’d only met her in person the day before, yet here I was, glass of rosé in hand, seated on her terrace in the south of France, the lights of Valbonne in the valley below mirroring the stars.
Almost nine years ago, a friend and I stopped into an estate sale, and I came away with a four dollar bottle of Lucien Lelong Indiscret parfum (the story and a mini-review are here). A few years later, a stranger — Beverly — wrote to me saying that her mother had worn Indiscret, and would I send her a sample? Her mother had died when Beverly was only 18, more than fifty years earlier. I sent her the bottle…
Everyone’s emotional memory
Perfumer Thierry Wasser talks about Mon Guerlain Eau de Parfum Intense.
The daily lemming
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