Happy Hump Day and happy National Junk Food Day. (Birthdays today: Robin Williams, Ernest Hemingway, Cat Stevens). What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m wearing vintage Diorissimo for Season 3, Episode 11 of The Good Place, where the cast discovers that heaven smells like whatever makes you happiest.
Reminder: 7/23 will be Sitcom Friday…
It’s usually a mistake, trying to search for something that used to exist, because you’re never going to be able to re-create it. But I went to the grocery store and kept trying to find those soaps. My mom couldn’t remember, and there was a little bit of a loss there, because I know it’s sitting in my head somewhere. That’s what loss is like: never being able to get that thing again. And even if I found the soap, it’s not going to be the same. It’ll never be exactly what I’m looking for.
— Porter Yates, on half of the couple behind the skincare brand Ayond, on the smell of loss. Read more in The Co-Founders Bottling the Scents of the Southwest at The Cut.
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The spot for Paco Rabanne Phantom. Below the jump, a spot explaining the refillable bottle, followed by a spot for the NFC features.
Victoria’s Secret has introduced Tease Crème Cloud, a new “airy gourmand” fragrance. Tease Crème Cloud 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…