Niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas has launched Corfu Kumquat, a new fragrance…
Aedes de Venustas Encens Japonais ~ new fragrance
Niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas has launched Encens Japonais, a new fragrance. (Encens Japonais is also one of the brand’s candles…*)
Aedes de Venustas 16a Orchard ~ new fragrance
Niche perfume boutique Aedes de Venustas has launched 16a Orchard, a new fragrance named for their street address in the Lower East Side. The brand is also repackaging and reintroducing seven fragrances: Signature, Iris Nazarena, Copal Azur, Palissandre d’Or, Cierge de Lune, Grenadille d’Afrique and Pelargonium…
Their boudoirlike perfume shop
When Karl Bradl and Robert Gerstner opened their boudoirlike perfume shop in the West Village in 1995, they focused on hard-to-find fragrances — the kind they spotted in their friends’ well-appointed bathrooms. Today, their selection includes the Parisian perfumer Serge Lutens’s bold, spicy scents; the heady creations of the 223-year-old French perfume house Lubin; and the New York brand Nomenclature’s intriguing synthetic-molecule blends, such as a vegetal musk extracted from hibiscus seeds.
— Read more in The Beauty Stores, Near and Far, That Are Destinations in Their Own Right at The New York Times.
The daily lemming
For their 25th anniversary, Aedes de Venustas is bringing back the Encens Japonais candle they did for their 10th anniversary (and which Kevin said was a great candle). It's a limited edition, and 15% of the proceeds will go to the Covid-19 Emergency Relief Fund. "Escape into a magical world, where the beauty of scent stirs the imagination and evokes wondrous dreams. A luxurious scent of exotic Japanese incense intertwined with the softness of leather, balsam and the sensuality of musk. The honeyed bitterness of strawflowers lends a velvety richness to the voluptuous sweetness of precious woods." $75. (Hat tip to Kevin!)