Macron so-called "Helpers" (in the original English) working the crowds in front of the Luxembourg I remember as a student of English and Comparative Literatures at the Sorbonne discussing the lack of center in French politics with my supervisor...
May 2017 Archives
Worth Paris x Disney Belle // Ticking Rose (2017) {Perfume Review & Musings}
Belle by Disney x Worth Paris interprets the cinematic rose of Beauty and the Beast by Disney as a rose-cedarwood accord on a bed of oiled bonbons. This could end up being a 140 character review on Twitter as...
ALBER ELBAZ PAR FREDERIC MALLE Superstitious // Refashioning Fragrance (2017) {Perfume Review & Musings}
For "an abstract piece of art", Superstitious by Frédéric Malle Editions de Parfums and Alber Elbaz offers a very animalistic opening, blending with snow-white aldehydes. You know where this is going. The perfume is going the way of great...
Hugo Boss The Scent Intense for Him (2017) {New Fragrance} {Men's Cologne}
Hugo Boss has released a new companion scent to Hugo Boss The Scent called Hugo Boss The Scent Intense for Him, which is an amplified version of the original, extolling the aphrodisiac properties of the Maninka fruit......
Dolce & Gabbana Velvet Cypress: Italian Landscape Architecture Gets Bottled (2017) {New Perfume}
Dolce & Gabbana has added a new item to their upscale Velvet fragrance collection with Velvet Cypress, inspired by "the traditional scent of the Mediterranean countryside" at a specific time of year as "an homage to the late-summer Italian...
Zlatan Ibrahimovic Myth Wood pour Homme & Myth Bloom pour Femme: On Swedish Nature (2017) {New Fragrances} {Celebrity Perfumes}
Football star Zlatan Ibrahimovic has released a new duo of scents dedicated to capturing the olfactive eco-system of the natural Swedish landscape called Myth Wood (men) and Myth Bloom (women), or in the words of the brand, as they...
Jean-Charles Brosseau Thé Poudré: Warm Tea and Cool-Hot Powder (2017) {New Fragrance}
Jean-Charles Brosseau, originally a French millinery brand, which has given the modern classic Ombre Rose to the world of perfumery, regularly continues to release scents offering a nostalgic chord, if only for the powdery notes leitmotive, a trademark of...
Amouage Blossom Love: A Luxurious Interpretation of Gossamer Lightness (2017) {New Fragrance}
If you ever wondered what a high-end cherry blossom fragrance composition might waft like, Amouage might provide the beginning of an answer to your question. The luxury Omani perfume house has launched a new fragrance in The Secret Garden...
Jimmy Choo L'Eau Showcases Hibiscus (2017) {New Fragrance} {Perfume Images & Ads}
Fashion label Jimmy Choo has launched a new, fresh fragrance for women called L'Eau, which showcases a tropical bloom, hibiscus, drenched in seasonal rains typical of the region of birth of the flower......
E. Coudray Rose Tubéreuse Offers a Touch of Spice (2017) {New Perfume}
One of the oldest names in perfumery, E. Coudray Est. 1822, is releasing a new fragrance for women this spring of 2017 called Rose Tubéreuse......
Gucci Bloom Feels the Breeze is Blowing over the Asia-Pacific Region with Dakota Johnson (2017) {New Fragrance} {Celebrity-Endorsed Perfume}
Gucci will launch a new fragrance for women simply called Bloom from August 2017, a floral composition which aims to be the olfactive parallel to the fashion house's running gardens theme which appears as pattern on a number of...
Abercrombie & Fitch First Instinct for Women (2017) {New Fragrance}
American apparel brand Abercrombie & Fitch released a new scent for women called First Instinct for Women, which is said to be "captivating and sensual, blended for the woman who follows her first instinct,"......
Joyeux 1er Mai ! // Happy May Day! // Busy with Muguet // Muguet affairé {Paris Street Photography}
Charity workers with a box of muguet On the eve of May 1st and on May Day, Parisians are getting active purchasing or selling muguet flowers to fete a floral and olfactive Renaissance tradition created by Catherine di Medici...