Five new launches have been competing for space in my routine lately. D.S. & Durga Debaser in Bloom started it all. D.S. & Durga Debaser in Bloom I had ten minutes to kill before our lunch reservation. The restaurant next…
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Industrial Chic Without the Drama. The latest Jones Road fragrance, En Route, first appeared during the holidays as part of an adorable little fragrance coffret trio. I remain deeply jealous of anyone who received that as a gift. Unlike the…
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This will be a very quick, bite-size post. I plan on sharing more of these. It has been a few years since The Maker hosted me at their hotel in Hudson, New York. The memory is still vivid. Snow falling.…
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Full review ahead. It starts with sea salt. It ends in smoke. I wasn’t ready. Are the new Balenciaga perfumes designed to smell like the next era? Balenciaga Makes Scents Again Balenciaga is back in the fragrance game and in signature…
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The subtle scent that somehow does the most. Subtle and impactful should not be mutually exclusive, but in fragrance they usually are. Most scents either disappear within the hour or announce themselves before you enter the room. I am looking…
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Seasonal rules? Toss them. These cold weather perfumes are unexpectedly some of the best summer fragrances I’ve worn this year. Wearing winter fragrances in summer sounds counterintuitive. But seasonal fragrance rules are more flexible than you think. Scents were divided…
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TL;DR you need the citronnelle spray. That’s all. I am reposting this writeup from last summer since Diptyque just re-launched this brilliant body spray alongside some fun garden-inspired ancillaries. Definitely check out the new seasonal collection which also includes a…
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Fresh Air, But Make It Fragrance Spring is the season of airing things out, swapping wool for linen, and rethinking what you actually want to smell like when the sun’s out. This lineup is for the fresh-air chasers, the spritz-happy…
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