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Gallivant Los Angeles ~ fragrance review

Posted by Jessica on 22 August 2019 8 Comments

This week I’ve been “traveling” cross-country with the niche line Gallivant, from Brooklyn (where I spend much of my time in real life) to Los Angeles (a place I’ve never actually visited). Los Angeles is the latest “urban exploration” fragrance from Gallivant and it’s described as “a hot and sensual woody floral, cooled with a marine breeze.” It was developed by perfumer Karine Chevallier and features notes of eucalyptus, clary sage, mandarin, pineapple, narcissus, tuberose, cade, guaiac, nagarmotha, musks and heliotrope.

I like Gallivant’s note about Los Angeles being “a neon floral fragrance,” since it feels fabulously artificial…

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Try Street Perfume

Posted by Robin on 29 July 2017 4 Comments

Commuters waiting for their ride are presented with a chrome cylinder, the inside glowing blue, labeled “Try Street Perfume.” If they’re bold enough to stick their mitts into the mystery orifice, they’re rewarded with a spritz of hyperlocal fragrance—this week’s is “Economic Development”; “Hollywood Springtime” is next week’s offering.

[Alan] Nakagawa is the very first ”Creative Catalyst Artist-in-Residence” at the L.A. Department of Transportation, a year-long gig that involves working with the agency’s Vision Zero team to reimagine how people perceive streets.

— Read more at How One L.A. Bus Stop Became a Depot for Experimental Perfumes at CityLab.

Andy Tauer to visit Scent Bar with Hyacinth and a Mechanic

Posted by Robin on 16 November 2016 7 Comments

Tauerville Hyacinth and a Mechanic.

Andy Tauer of Tauer Perfumes and Tauerville will be visiting Scent Bar in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 20, and will be selling the fragrance Hyacinth and a Mechanic* that day only, in person only,** as part of a new Tauerville Stories collection…

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A lot of people think cumin smells like body odor

Posted by Robin on 3 July 2014 5 Comments

My scent, representing East/Northeast L.A., was supposed to smell like Mexican food and orange blossom. Goeltzenleuchter made it with cumin and neroli oil. Another participant told me that a lot of people think cumin smells like body odor. Perhaps this explained the gagging.

 — Columnist Meghan Daum of the Los Angeles Times attends the one-day installation "Sillage" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. Read more at Smells like ... a Westsider: All wet lawn and the sweat of a trophy wife.

A struggle that rocked the nation

Posted by Robin on 30 May 2014 6 Comments

After a struggle that rocked the nation to its very condiment-based core, the Sriracha saga has come to a close. The Sriracha plant in California — which was the subject of an ongoing dispute — will stay open.

— Read more at The Great Sriracha Panic is finally over as Irwindale dismisses its lawsuit at The Washington Post. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, never mind, or see here and here.

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