Hump Day and Tequila Day. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Lush 25:43 for a perfect July morning: at the moment it’s sunny and 73F.
Reminder: on 7/26 we’re doing Gone In Sixty Seconds…wear the shortest-lived fragrance you own…
Not as omnipresent
I once had a photographer ask me what scent I was wearing on a shoot, which is not that unusual a question, but in this case, I could tell he was asking because we were both wearing the same thing: Le Labo’s unmistakable (and ubiquitous) Santal 33, a very sharp, distinct, and self-announcing fragrance that can linger for hours in elevators and stairwells. I have since traded that for [Heretic Parfum Scandalwood], which is not as omnipresent and is far more restrained while still giving skin a similar sandalwoody aroma that’s sensual, velvety, and elegant.
Read more at Five Subtle Scents for People (Like Me) Who Hate Smelling Like Perfume at New York magazine.
The daily lemming
Little bath things from Mer-Sea & Co at Anthropologie, both in Orange Honey ("Amber, vanilla, and wood are topped with orange and lemon, evocative of an afternoon stroll through the orange groves") — at left, Bath Soak ($10 for 170g), at right, Foaming Body Scrub ($12 for 148ml).
Victoria’s Secret Tease Heartbreaker ~ new perfume
Victoria’s Secret has introduced Tease Heartbreaker, a new floriental fragrance. Tease Heartbreaker is a sort of flanker to 2007’s Sexy Little Things, via 2010’s Sexy Little Things Noir Tease (which became Noir Tease for short), and which was a flanker to 2008’s Sexy Little Things Noir…
Guerlain Mon Guerlain Intense ~ new perfume
Guerlain will launch Mon Guerlain Eau de Parfum Intense, a new fragrance for women, at the end of August. Mon Guerlain Intense is a flanker to 2017’s Mon Guerlain, and follows Mon Guerlain Bloom of Rose, introduced earlier this year…