That's right, it's Data Privacy Day.
We're celebrating with the usual open thread routine: talk about anything you like — the perfume you’re wearing today, the last perfume that made you laugh, the perfume note you're enamored with at the moment, whatever.
Or, ask a question about fragrance, then see if anyone else has asked a question that you can answer…
Note: image is Irises [cropped] by dottieg2007 at flickr; some rights reserved.
Jacomo has launched It’s Me, a new duo of smartphone-inspired fragrances…
We’ve seen a few amber-focused fragrances surfacing amongst the new releases of late 2011 and early 2012, and that’s fine with me: I’m tired of oud being the “it” note, since I don’t care for it at all, and I usually enjoy some amber in my floral fragrances. Two of the recent arrivals are Aroma M Geisha Amber Rouge, a sister fragrance to the line’s Geisha Rouge, and Atelier Cologne Amber Nue.
Aroma M’s Geisha Amber Rouge (shown below right) perfume oil is packaged in a roll-on dispenser wrapped in the line’s signature Japanese paper, and the notes of its composition include amber, cinnamon, clove, star anise, resins, and incense. It’s much less peppery-clovey than the original Geisha Rouge…
A French court has fined perfume giants including Chanel, Christian Dior and L'Oreal a total of 40 million euros ($53 million) for colluding to keep prices high.
— Read more at Chanel, Christian Dior and L'Oreal fined for keeping prices high. The appeals court was upholding a 2006 decision; also included in the decision were Guerlain, Sephora, Clinique, Estee Lauder, Issey Miyake, Jean Paul Gautier and Yves Saint Laurent, among others.
Iggy Pop, goofing around in a 'le making of' for Paco Rabanne Black XS L'Excès.
Sunday night SOTE? I'm wearing Strange Invisible Perfumes Magazine Street. TV: waiting for Downton! Chocolate: Chocolove w/ almonds again. "SC Johnson releases ‘fragrance palette’ to disclose product ingredients" http://t.co/uP1naaBE Finally added a tag index. I think I wrote that on my to do list in 2009. http://t.co/3bzLIrlk Once again, 1/2way thru writing before I realize I've already announced this scent. Ha. They really do all sound the same.