Anna Sui has launched Fantasia Pop Surprise!, a new floral gourmand flanker to 2017’s Fantasia…
This amazing perfume
I also mentioned my favorite perfumes that I couldn't get anymore. I went looking for Norman Norell’s fragrance. Nobody even knows Norman had a fragrance. He was a huge fashion designer, especially for Hollywood, and he had this amazing perfume. Once he passed away, you just couldn't find it. We couldn't truly re-create it with the candle. We bought three bottles on eBay, but they had all gone bad. But we read all about it, and we took inspiration. We pulled the elements I love: musk, leather, and Jamaica–and that informed everything. There was this one fruit from Jamaica that we explored, the naseberry, which very similar to a pear flavor.
— Grace Jones, on talking to perfumer Jérôme Epinette about her new candle for Boy Smells, Grace. Read more in Grace Jones on Creating Her Debut Scent with Boy Smells at Harper's Bazaar.
Anna Sui Cosmic Sky ~ new perfume
Nomenclature Minted ~ fragrance review
I recently purchased a few small plants to create a summer “container garden” — basil, dill, peppermint. I’ve done this before, although not last summer or the year before (I must have had something else on my mind?) and I’m looking forward to having a supply of fresh-picked herbs again. And, of course, there’s the smell factor. The mint plant, in particular, had me burying my nose in its leaves on the walk home.
Right around the same time, I was happy to hear that the first release from Nomenclature’s new Modern Eclectics collection is Minted, an “aromatic woody scent” with notes of mint, maté, jasmine, papyrus, Atlas cedar, violet, lemongrass, bergamot and brown sugar for “the fragrance equivalent of a deep breath.” This collection is playful, but in a different way from the original Nomenclature collection, with its aroma-chemical “molecule” inspirations and its lab flask bottles: the Modern Eclectics presentation includes collages by visual artist Rafael Santiago as well as short, whimsical poems, and the descriptions of its scents refer to nature, to flavors, even to internet culture. Minted (created for Nomenclature by perfumer Jérôme Epinette) takes “Moroccan mint tea on ice” as one reference point, but also plays with multiple readings of “mint” as taste, as currency (hence the dollar sign in its visuals) and as the condition of newness…
Off-White Paperwork Solution ~ new fragrances
Virgil Abloh’s Off-White brand has launched Paperwork, a new beauty line including four unisex fragrances: Solution No. 1, Solution No. 2, Solution No. 3 and Solution No. 4. Abloh reportedly worked on the fragrances before his death in 2021…