A spot for Kenzo’s Flower Glow Stick, followed (below the jump) by a spot for Kenzo World Power.
Friday scent of the day 9/13
It’s Friday the 13th! (Also, Roald Dahl Day and National Chocolate Day.) Our community project for today: protect yourself from bad juju with a Fierce Force Field Fragrance. Thanks go to chocolatemarzipan for the suggestion!
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
I am at the beach, and wearing my trusty old Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess body cream as a force field against the arrival of Fall. It is a fierce battle at the moment — the sky is gray, the wind is gusting and the waves are whipping — but I expect that by tomorrow, Bronze Goddess will have won…
At night it’s richer, more generous
I smelled [tuberose] from the morning to the evening and I realized that the smell is very different. When you smell the tuberose at night it’s richer, more generous. It emphasizes the lactonic creamy notes, the fruity peachiness. It’s much more powerful and orange-flower-like than the smell of the bud, which is greener. It’s addictive – you want to smell it again and again.
— Perfumer Sophie Labbé, who developed Bvlgari Tubereuse Mystique. Read more at Is Tuberose the Sexiest Fragrance Note? at Town & Country.
The daily lemming
So you could get the Coromandel in Extrait for $240, or for the same price, you can have the Les Eaux de Chanel set at Nordstrom: "A limited-edition set featuring three travel sizes of LES EAUX DE CHANEL scents, elegantly packaged in a signature pouch with scenic postcards." With 50 ml each Paris-Deauville, Paris-Venise and Paris-Biarritz.
The strength of the origins
A new spot for Terre d'Hermès.