Happy Friday and happy Gingerbread House Day! It’s also Frank Sinatra’s birthday. Our community project for today: tell us about a personal hobby or interest or any activity you do frequently, other than perfume, and match it to a fragrance. Thanks go to Kanuka for the suggestion. What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in […]
The future of flavor is here: McCormick unveils its 2026 Flavor of the Year: Black Currant, a berry featuring a distinct yet balanced flavor profile that’s sweet, tart, and rich. […] Black Currant berries are native to central and northern Europe and northern Asia. They combine tart-and-tangy with a sweet, fruity flavor that’s earthy, slightly floral and […]
From Australian brand Wavertree & London, a triple milled bar soap in Christmas Pudding: “Delve into a Christmas Pudding with a delicious fragrance of sweet spices, citrus peel and brown sugar. Hints of brandy and rich raisins. Memories of Christmases past.” $8.95 for 200g at Smallflower. Source link
Happy Almost-Friday and happy International Mountain Day! It’s also the Día Nacional Del Tango, plus a very happy 94th birthday to Rita Moreno. What fragrance are you wearing? For sitting in a sauna, easily my favorite winter activity, I’m in Comme des Garçons Moncole Scent One: Hinoki. Reminder: on 12/12, tell us about a personal […]
It’s Tuesday and National Pastry Day; also, International Anti-Corruption Day. Birthdays: Joseph Pilates, Redd Foxx, Judi Dench. What fragrance are you wearing? I have a perfume problem, and I have a tea problem too. The only difference is that I might finish all the tea before I die? Anyway, I’m wearing Marni, with its little […]
From D’Orsay, the limited edition 18:18 Bois Imaginaire holiday candle: “A woody, aromatic scent imagined by Yann Vasnier for D’ORSAY, evoking an imaginary twilight walk through a pine forest — where bark, sap, and needles release a resinous breath, both raw and delicate, like a secret nature whispers at the edge of night. A tender, […]
The spot for Tom Ford Figue Érotique. Source link
Isabella Rossellini, Julia Roberts, Ni Ni and Aya Nakamura in the “Lancôme Express” holiday video. Source link
A limited edition collector bottle of Comme des Garçons Zero, called Zero Than Pink (“From Pink noise, also known as 1/F noise, which in audio engineering is a signal or process with a frequency spectrum such that the power spectral density is proportional to the reciprocal of the frequency”), done for Australian beauty retailer Mecca. […]
I’m in “Aoud Cuir d’Arabie,” my favorite from Montale. The listed notes are oud, birch, leather, and tobacco. On paper, that doesn’t seem too intimidating, but the perfume’s got a reputation for smelling of death. I don’t think that’s accurate. I will say that its immediate opening is its most challenging stage, evoking a barnyard, […]