From Rahua, Palo Santo perfume oil: "Experience the uplifting, fresh and sophisticated scent of sacred Palo Santo, “holy wood”, featuring the highest quality pure plant essential oils. A captivating, sweet and woodsy oil perfume with hints of citrus and gardenia flower. This natural perfume pure plant based oil blend in an elegant rollerball application, is inspired by Rahua’s cult-favorite signature scent. Used by Shamans since the Incan era for its medicinal and spiritual benefits, Palo Santo is believed to protect, heal and promote well-being, cleansing of “mala energía” (bad energy)." 10 ml for $32.
Bvlgari Le Gemme Coralia ~ new fragrance
Bvlgari has launched Coralia, a new fragrance in the luxury Le Gemme collection…
Friday scent of the day 8/9
Happy National Book Lovers Day! Our community project for today: wear a fragrance inspired by an author or a book or a character in a book.
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’m in Hermès Kelly Caleche Eau de Toilette. Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena said he was inspired (at least in part) by the Jean Giono novel Jean le Bleu…
You’d smell her before you ever saw her
If Cleopatra wanted to woo you, you’d smell her before you ever saw her. Legend has it that when she first visited Marc Antony in Tarsus, she coated the purple sails of her golden boat in a fragrance so pungent that it wafted all the way to shore.
— Read more at Researchers Concocted an Ancient Egyptian Perfume Perhaps Worn by Cleopatra at Atlas Obscura. Hat tip to ringthing!
Thursday scent of the day 8/8
Almost-Friday and International Cat Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
Me: another day Strange Invisible Perfumes Musc Botanique.
Reminder: on 8/9 we’ll celebrate National Book Lovers Day…