My desk fills up with random beauty clutter throughout the week whilst I’m figuring out what I want to be writing about. I wander around the flat, picking things up as inspiration strikes, and it all ends up here. Along with random wrappers and press releases and, well, stuff. As you can see, perfume and skincare have been on my mind at the moment. All […]
I’m a massive fan of Andy Tauer, I was lucky enough to meet with him recently (more about that anon), and I enjoyed a great deal hearing about how he is inspired to create his perfumes, and to be able to smell some of the ingredients that make up his creations. He is certainly an artist of perfume in an increasingly corporate bland and fruity-smelling […]
Launched in what must be one of the prettiest bottles I’ve seen all year, Belle D’Opium is the latest fragrance from Yves St Laurent. A “sister” scent to the original Opium, this is lighter, and designed – I guess – to be more of a complement to the current trend for the fruity-musky-woody stews that are all you can smell in modern fragrance these days. […]
Said to resemble a mojito, with notes of mint, water jasmine, brown sugar, and primo fiore lemon, this is the latest release from Giorgio Armani perfumes. It’s meant to also have some aquatic notes, and smell very “wet” as a result. I’ve seen it described as a “floral aquatic”, and many of the reviews I’ve read describe all the notes as read in the press […]
Scouting around trying to find myself a bottle of Cuir de Lancome in Selfridges (I was offered O de Lancome five times, but no matter), I came across this little beauty. First released in 1967, it is described as a floral aldehyde, and was re-released by Lancome a couple of years ago. I find it beautiful, it’s very feminine – even ladylike – but it’s […]
Well, it’s been a while since he popped up, and I did embarrass him this week by outing his new-found love of candles, so I thought it was time he reviewed something else. Today’s post is by my fluffy wuffy bunnykins Mr Lippie. Please say hello: *** So. I’m not a big wearer of scents, I think we’ve established that. If you didn’t know it […]
I was at Selfridges last Thursday, to see the in-store launch of this new fragrance from Maison Martin Margiela, and it looked amazing, white feathers everywhere, women dressed in lab coats, and the fragrance strips are cut like hospital bracelets! Plenty more fun than the usual frou-frou frilliness, I must say. The perfume is a little different to the norm too, on me, this is […]
I don’t know about you, but I spent the summer drenched in sunshine! Not literally, but I did wear a lot of Clarins Sunshine fragrance. When I first smelled it, I had an instant sense-memory of my first ever foreign holiday, it was so redolent of Ambre Solaire, the beach, and bubblegum, that I was instantly ten years old again, right there on the shop […]