Happy Tuesday! What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing a little dab of Narciso by Narciso Rodriguez (Eau de Parfum, aka White Cube), and drinking a cup of Hong Cha Mao Feng from Upton.
Reminder: on 6/14, we’re doing the picture challenge, edition 4, part 2…
It was an emergency. A few weeks ago, I was decanting the last of my Jean Patou Colony Extrait into an atomizer, and the atomizer toppled. I managed to save most of it, and I mopped up the rest with my forearms, but the writing was on the wall. Before long, my beloved Colony, a pineapple chypre as goofy and glamorous as Carole Lombard jumping on the bed in My Man Godfrey and as gentle as goose down in a breeze, would be a memory. (Sob.)
I was lamenting this to Tracy at Fumerie, and she asked if I’d ever tried Bruno Fazzolari Unsettled. The Nevada Museum of Art commissioned Fazzolari to create Unsettled — the fragrance, plus a uranium glass bottle shaped like an atomic bomb’s mushroom cloud — for a 2018 exhibition on Western art…
Diptyque will launch Essences Insensées 2019, the fourth limited edition harvest-based fragrance in the La Collection 34 series (see Essences Insensées 2014, Essences Insensées 2015 and Essences Insensées 2016). This year’s edition centers on Tahitian gardenia, aka tiaré…
It’s Monday (sorry) and Iced Tea Day. The freebiemeet is still open. Birthdays today: Maurice Sendak and Judy Garland. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Monocle + Comme des Garçons Scent One: Hinoki for a rainy morning.
Reminder: on 6/14, we’re doing the picture challenge, edition 4, part 2…
Robert never buys fragrances and exclusively wears a blend that is unique to his family – the same recipe has been handed down from generation to generation.
“Because I am of a certain age, I like very much the chypre fragrances, which are a very specific type of fragrance which smell beautiful when you wear them,” says Robert.
— From a multimedia profile of perfumer François Robert at BBC. Read more at The remarkable scent memories of perfumers. Hat tip to Kevin!