The exhibit “Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent” will open at Somerset House in London on 21 June and run through 17 September…
Bottle of liquid doom
To create this fatalistic fragrance, the pair went through the Book of Revelation, plucking out every mention of a scented element: thunder, blood, rocks of the mountains, incense, wormwood, rod of iron, creatures of the sea, hail and fire, animal horns, flesh burned with fire, brimstone and, of course, a grievous sore. They then passed this somewhat unlikely shopping list on to Edinburgh-based perfumer Euan McCall to turn the 1611 King James Bible’s vision of annihilation into a “wearable scent”. That’s right, a limited-edition bottle of liquid doom can be yours for just £300 plus VAT.
— You can smell Apocalypse, a fragrance by artists Jon Thomson and Alison Craighead, at the exhibit Party Booby Trap at Carroll/Fletcher in London through 25 May. Read more at I sniffed the end of the world, and it smells like bile and dread at The Guardian.
Columbia Road Flower Market
For anyone else who needs some flowers today, three videos (two are below the jump) about the Columbia Road Flower Market in London.
Mademoiselle Prive ~ new Chanel exhibit in London
Mademoiselle Privé, a new exhibit “capturing the charismatic personality and irreverent spirit of Mademoiselle Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld”, has opened at London’s Saatchi Gallery and will run until November 1. The exhibit features a No. 5 laboratory…
Floris Scents of Summer ~ afternoon tea in London
British niche line Floris has collaborated with the InterContinental London Park Lane to present Scents of Summer, a new afternoon tea…