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Lazy weekend poll ~ five questions for National Peach Month

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We’re celebrating National Peach Month with our usual lazy weekend poll. Do tell us…

1. What fragrance are you wearing today?

2. Your favorite fragrance with a peach note?

3. Your favorite peach body, hair care or home fragrance product?

4. Your favorite way to eat a peach? Share or link to a recipe if you like!

5. Share something wonderful with us! It can be anything — the most fun thing you did so far this summer (or winter), something delicious you ate, your latest binge-worthy TV series, the last good book you read, any fabulous news you recently received — really, anything…

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Friday scent of the day 8/3

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It’s Friday, and even better, it’s the first Friday in Peach Month! Our community project for today: wear a peach fragrance.

What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.

It was sheer luck that I found my Parfums de Nicolaï L’Eau à la Folie fairly quickly last night, because it was not where it should have been. Anyway, I do smell peachy…

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Bond no. 9 Park Avenue South ~ fragrance review

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Bond no. 9 Park Avenue South

Niche line Bond no. 9 recently launched Park Avenue South, the brand’s latest fragrance inspired by a New York City neighborhood. Park Avenue South is “an eau de parfum celebrating the city’s newest, most scintillating and most happening street…[and] the neighborhood’s fresh, flirtatious, insouciant spirit” with notes of green apple, peach, jasmine, musk and dry amber.

The promotional materials for Park Avenue South describe this particular bit of Manhattan as “New York’s latest happening turf, full of condos with pools, of-the-moment restaurants, chic hotels, and frenzied real estate panache.” That sounds like a part of town I’d avoid at all costs. I suppose Bond is latching onto this strip’s identity as an alternative to the old-money style of upper Park Avenue, which Bond commemorated back in 2003 with notes of delicate white florals…

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By Kilian Flower of Immortality ~ fragrance review

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peach blossom

Last April, niche line By Kilian launched Flower of Immortality as the third fragrance in its Asian Tales collection. Like the other two fragrances in the collection, Bamboo Harmony and Water Calligraphy, Flower of Immortality was developed by perfumer Calice Becker. It is an homage to the peach blossom, a symbol of immortality and hospitality in Asian folklore, and was inspired specifically by the Chinese story “A Tale of the Fountain of the Peach Blossom Spring.”

Flower of Immortality is a fruity floral with notes of white peach, carrot, iris, blackcurrant bud, rose crystal, tonka bean and vanilla bean. It does what it promises, balancing those “smooth and juicy” fruit notes with its “sweet and powdery” florals. Don’t let the carrot scare you off: it’s not identifiable as a separate note. What you’ll really experience is the peach, and plenty of it…

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Providence Perfume Co + Jonathan Joseph Peters Mousseline Peche ~ fragrance review

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Providence Perfume Co + Jonathan Joseph Peters Mousseline Peche

Mousseline Pêche is a recent collaboration between indie perfumer Charna Ethier of Providence Perfume Co and Providence-based fashion designer Jonathan Joseph Peters. It’s inspired by the fabric mousseline de soie (silk muslin) and its composition includes notes of yuzu, pink grapefruit, rosewood, peach accord, ylang ylang, rose otto, tonka, vetiver and spun sugar (natural maltol).

I’m not familiar with Peters’s designs (I’ve never even seen Project Runway, on which he appeared in 2010), but I’ve tried several other fragrances from Providence Perfume Co over the past two years, and Mousseline Pêche is my new favorite. When we smell Mousseline Pêche, we’re meant to imagine a sun-ripened peach, a dress of pale peach-colored mousseline and warm skin, and the fragrance really does make all this possible. It’s warm and bright and gentle, and it’s a worthy reminder that “fruity florals” can indeed be beautiful…

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