L'Artisan Parfumeur has discontinued its Jour de Fête fragrance and the Mood Swings coffret.
Also on the way out: the 50 ml sizes of Navegar, Tubereuse and Safran Troublant, and as previously reported, the 50 ml size of Dzing!.
L’Artisan Dzing on the chopping block
L'Artisan has apparently ceased production on the 50 ml size of Dzing!, and the 100 ml size is slated to be discontinued at some unknown future date. You can read more at Aromascope, and thanks to Ina for permission to cross-post.
This is very discouraging news. Dzing! is weirdly brilliant and something of a cult favorite, and although we've never reviewed it, Angela has featured it twice: see Perfume Confession and The Leather Sisters.
I did not do a full scale search, but the 50 ml is still in stock at aedes, beautycafe and luckyscent.
Update: the 100 ml size of Dzing! is NOT discontinued.
Floris Malmaison fragrance review
A friend very kindly sent me some Malmaison by Floris so that I could wrap up last week’s posts on carnation (see Lorenzo Villoresi Garofano, Etro Dianthus, Caron Bellodgia). I had not smelled it in several years, and was surprised to find how closely it matched my memory — it is lovely stuff.
Malmaison was originally released by Floris in the first half of the 19th century; it was reformulated and relaunched in 2000. I do not know the notes, but it is reportedly based on the “rare Malmaison carnation“, and it is closer to the modern conception of a soliflore than any of the other carnation scents I’ve discussed so far. The top notes are, quite literally, a burst of fall spices…
A moment of silence, please
Barbara Bui Le Parfum has been discontinued. Many thanks to Marina of Perfume Smellin' Things for the news, and you can read her review of Barbara Bui here.
Lanvin Scandal ~ perfume review
I’d been yearning to try Lanvin Scandal for a while now. It seemed like references to Scandal turned up everywhere: in a list of leather scents, in my research into perfumes made in the 1930s, in other perfume blogs. The problem was that Scandal was discontinued in 1971. At last, in a swap, I got my hands on three precious milliliters of it. Now I just had to hope I wouldn’t fall in love with Scandal…