06 Friday Sep 2019
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Little Flower, the new collaboration between Régime des Fleurs and Chloë Sevigny.
You can read it here.
30 Friday Aug 2019
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It’s the unofficial end of summer! Are you headed anywhere for a last-chance weekend vacation?
This fragrance, Eau des Vacances from Fragonard (2015), would be a perfect accompaniment to an end-of-the-season beach visit…
26 Monday Aug 2019
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Los Angeles, the latest release from Gallivant.
You can read it here.
22 Thursday Aug 2019
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This week brought a new perfume launch from the niche house of Régime des Fleurs: Little Flower, a collaboration with actor and style icon Chloë Sevigny. The fragrance is inspired by the rose, Chloë’s favorite flower.
I’ve admired Chloë’s work — and her taste in fashion, design, and fragrance — since the 90s, and I’m a rose-perfume-lover, so I didn’t want to miss the launch event at Dover Street Market’s Manhattan location.
Here are a few of my photos from the event…
19 Monday Aug 2019
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blackbird perfumes, cartier, cherries, dawn spencer hurwitz, hilde soliani, lolita lempicka, perfume, tom ford
Once in a while someone asks me my opinion about Tom Ford fragrances. Let me try to summarize: I think some of them are excellent. I think some of them are boring. I think all of them are overpriced. And I won’t buy (or review) any of them anyway, because I choose to reject Tom Ford’s branding and marketing.
I’ve heard that Tom Ford Lost Cherry is worth trying, and I’ll get around to smelling it eventually, just for reference. In the meantime, I’d like to mention a few other cherry-inspired perfumes that are worth seeking out.
09 Friday Aug 2019
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a review of Portrayal, a fragrance for women by Amouage.
You can read it here.
02 Friday Aug 2019
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My latest post on Now Smell This is a fragrance review of Maison Martin Margiela REPLICA Whispers in the Library.
You can read it here.
29 Monday Jul 2019
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In honor of National Lipstick Day, here’s my favorite lipstick-inspired fragrance. It has been imitated by other brands but no one has improved upon this beauty. It was created for Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle by Ralf Schwieger in 2000 and its notes include grapefruit, violet, rose, iris, raspberry, vanilla and white musk.
17 Wednesday Jul 2019
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blackbird on ballard, cire trudon, dawn spencer hurwitz, demeter fragrances, penhaligon's, pilar and lucy, schmidt's deodorant
Jean Shrimpton photographed by Richard Avedon for Harper’s Bazaar, 1965
July 20, 2019 is the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s spaceflight to the Moon and the first human contact there. “One small step for man…” (You know the rest!)
I don’t think Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins were wearing cologne on that historic voyage—they had other things on their mind!—but I couldn’t help wondering, what perfume would I wear for a fantasy visit to the Moon, or simply for an evening of moon-gazing?
Here are a few ideas…
