Kenzo will launch Flower By Kenzo La Récolte Parisienne, a new fragrance for women. Flower La Récolte Parisienne is a flanker to 2023’s Flower Ikebana, which was a flanker to 2000’s Flower fragrance for women, and was inspired by an urban garden of Franco-Japanese horticulturist Masami Charlotte Lavault, the founder of Plein Air Paris… Read the rest of this article ..read more

If I could find this in the US, I'd buy it for myself for Mother's Day right now: the Nesti Dante Dolce far Niente Trio. "Enjoy this stunning tribute to natural beauty and the Italian way of life. The Dolce far Niente trio of Florentine soaps is made using the traditional Italian saponification process to obtain a softer, richer, highly natural bar soap. The decorated set contains three magnificent 150g perfumed soaps... Tuberose, Narcissus and Pink Jasmine. Each delicate soap is wrapped in fine textured paper. Made with love and care in Italy." $45 (AUD, I assume?) at Saison in Australia ..read more

Apparently the smells made the museum very nervous! They didn’t want anyone to feel assaulted by having to endure the scent of human hair from a hat, and so on. Personally, I very much enjoyed the pat-’n-sniff wall in the “Specter of the Rose” gallery, which allows a visitor to release the smells that have been lifted from a Paul Poiret dress and pair of House of Drecoll gowns and embedded in the paint. — The New York Times reviews The Costume Institute’s spring 2024 exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion (for which Sissel Tolaas did the interactive fragrances). Read more in At t ..read more

More from the Lush Bridgerton collection: See and Be Seen Body Wash. "Freshen up for high tea with this lovely lathering wash made with the bestselling scent of Rose Jam. Apply onto a pouf or dip straight in and inhale the heady blend of rose, geranium and Sicilian lemon oils, as well as Pakistani rose absolute. Then wash your cares away with brightening fresh strawberry juice and calming fresh rose petal infusion. All that's left to do is step into your spotlight, smelling utterly sumptuous." $23 for 270g at Lush USA ..read more

Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also Europe Day and John Brown’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing? I’m in Tauer Perfumes Au Coeur du Désert. Reminder: 5/10 is the International Day of Argania, so we’re off to Morocco… Read the rest of this article ..read more

“You don’t just smell an aroma; you fall into it,” writes artisan perfumer Mandy Aftel. And entering her exquisite small museum, the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents, tucked into a backyard in Berkeley, is to fall into an ancient, mysterious world. Amid centuries-old books, bottles and curios are natural fragrances that come from the secretions of civets and the bowels of sperm whales, as well as from resins, rare flowers, roots and so much more. We talk to Aftel about her collection, the art of building a fragrance, and her new book, “The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous Wo ..read more

From Le Feu de L'Eau, the Petale candle: "Created without using a mold, each candle is sculpted underwater with a high-temperature wax. The color is hand mixed and the fragrances are custom blended into a soy candle filling, which melts at a quicker rate than the exterior wax so that as the candle burns the exterior becomes a wax shell. It sounds more complicated than it is. Just know it’s beautiful." With tuberose, iris and orange peel, $70 for 425g at Hero Shop ..read more

Mizensir, the fragrance line of perfumer Alberto Morillas, has launched Legend Leather, a new fragrance… Read the rest of this article ..read more

Perfumers Jacques Cavalier and Camille Cavalier talk about Bvlgari Allegra Chill & Sole ..read more

When Dallas Pratt worked at an outpost of Aesop in an outdoor shopping mall outside Chicago, one of her and her co-workers’ favorite ways of drawing in new customers was making a concoction they called “sidewalk tea”. They would put a few drops of scented lotion in a cup of hot water, and then they would pour it onto the slab of concrete outside the shop. As the water evaporated, the smell of the lotion would fill the air. “It drew people in,” Pratt tells me. “They asked questions. They spent time.” And, crucially, they bought stuff. — Read more in ‘It’s the brand speaking to you’: the scent ..read more