Yves Saint Laurent has launched three new fragrances in the Le Vestiaire Des Parfums series. The Édition Couture scents are named for Paris street addresses associated with the fashion house: 24 Rue de l’Université, 37 Rue de Bellechasse and 6 Place Saint Sulpice…
The Diana Vreeland line has launched Wildly Attractive, a new fragrance…
“The smell of a room can bring you to that room faster than a picture,” Benaim remarked. To create what he called a “reconstruction of an epoch,” the students and researchers are delicately capturing the smells of different objects and historic areas of the 1906 Morgan. They’ve descended to the basement, with its antique Otis elevator works, examined the fireplace, and climbed up to a 16th-century tapestry, which is the only textile known to date to J. P. Morgan’s time.
— Perfumer Carlos Benaïm and others are trying to figure out what the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan might have smelled like when it was founded in 1906. Read more at Researchers Bury Their Noses in Books to Sniff Out the Morgan Library’s Original Smell at Hyperallergic. Hat tip to Monkeytoe!
Diesel has launched Only The Brave High. The new fragrance for men is a flanker to 2009’s Only The Brave, and follows 2016’s Only The Brave Extreme…
Last week I swooned a bit over La Femme Bohème, one of three new fragrances from high-end cosmetics line Edward Bess; this week I’ve been wearing Spanish Veil. This is another oriental scent, also developed by perfumer Carlos Benaïm, with notes of sandalwood, tonka bean and guaic wood.
Spanish Veil was inspired by inspired by the artifice and mystery of facial veils worn like a “second skin”: “Scents of the outside world are trapped in the starched net, a magnet for the plumes of smoky incense wafting through ancient basilica walls that mix with the smells of savage animal hides in bullfighter rings and clouds of white dust native to the Latin land.” But once we get past that somewhat overwrought prose…