
The exhibit “Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent” will open at Somerset House in London on 21 June and run through 17 September…
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The exhibit “Perfume: A Sensory Journey Through Contemporary Scent” will open at Somerset House in London on 21 June and run through 17 September…
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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.
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For anyone else who needs some flowers today, three videos (two are below the jump) about the Columbia Road Flower Market in London.
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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…
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British niche line Floris has collaborated with the InterContinental London Park Lane to present Scents of Summer, a new afternoon tea…