• About
  • Login to comment
    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • Pinterest
    • RSS
    • Twitter

Now Smell This

a blog about perfume

Menu ▼
  • Perfume Reviews
  • New Perfumes
  • Perfumers
  • Perfume Houses
  • Shop for perfume
  • Resources
2013 / Browsing by date: December 2013

What 2013 Taught Me About Perfume

Posted by Angela on 31 December 2013 93 Comments

New Year postcard

On my refrigerator is a placemat from an outdoor dinner I attended this past Midsummer’s Eve. It says, “A year soon runs its length and never returns the same, and the end seldom seems to belong to the beginning.”1 That’s how I feel about 2013. I can’t say anything earth shattering has happened this year, but life feels subtly different — including how I feel about perfume.

Here are a few things I’ve learned over the past year:

Give certain fragrances a second chance. As I wrote in yesterday’s Best of 2013 post, this includes perfumes you know you like. A good perfume can be like an absorbing painting…

Read the rest of this article »

Far more complicated than I thought it was going to be

Posted by Robin on 31 December 2013 3 Comments

I missed this earlier in the year: Dries Van Noten and Frédéric Malle talk about their collaboration on Dries Van Noten par Frédéric Malle. (They start out by talking about how great Barneys is though. Skip to 1:10 if you don't care.)

Kenzo L’Eau Par Kenzo Mirror Edition ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 31 December 2013 4 Comments

Kenzo L'Eau Par Kenzo Mirror Edition

Kenzo will launch L’Eau Par Kenzo Mirror Edition, a new fragrance for women. L’Eau Par Kenzo Mirror Edition is a flanker to 1996’s L’Eau Par Kenzo Pour Femme, and follows recent flankers L’Eau Par Kenzo Colors Edition (2013) and L’Eau Par Kenzo Wild Edition (2011)…

Read the rest of this article »

Online fragrance shopping

Posted by Robin on 31 December 2013 Leave a Comment

New at macys: Bvlgari Aqva Amara.

New at nordstrom: Balenciaga Rosabotanica.

Jimmy Choo Flash London Club ~ new fragrance

Posted by Robin on 31 December 2013 2 Comments

Jimmy Choo Flash London Club

Jimmy Choo will launch Flash London Club, a new limited edition fragrance for women. Flash London Club is a flanker to 2013’s Flash; other recent launches from the brand include Jimmy Choo Exotic…

Read the rest of this article »

Older articles »

Advertisement


Parfum1

Luckyscent

Search

Browse by…

Topic

Perfume talk New fragrances
Shopping Books :: News
Body products Home fragrance
Polls Another subject

Date

March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
Prior months

Author

Robin Jessica
Angela Kevin
Erin Guest Author

Tag

Celebrity perfumes
Cheap thrills
Collector bottles
Perfumista tip series
Video
The complete tag index

From NST at Twitter

  • "The Fragrance Foundation to Honor Frédéric Malle" (2018 Game Changer Honoree.'; Beauty Packaging mag) https://t.co/a9cQyY0SA3, 17 hours ago
  • "Twitter has fun recreating perfumes with emojis" (irish examiner) https://t.co/rjEzyaYngD, 21 hours ago
  • Winners of the 2018 CEW UK beauty awards https://t.co/X5mXGNAidh,
  • Winners of the 2018 French Fifi awards (in French) https://t.co/Q9q9oyDQwf,
  • "A Rare Corpse Flower Is About to Bloom Any Second Now in Arizona" https://t.co/P6EeSM7i0M,

Recent reviews

Gucci Guilty Absolute Pour Femme
Diptyque Fleur de Peau
Hermès Myrrhe Églantine
Miu Miu L’Eau Rosée
Atelier Cologne Iris Rebelle
Jean Paul Gaultier Scandal
Thierry Mugler Aura
Amouage Figment Woman
Amouage Figment Man
Annick Goutal Nuit et Confidences
Ralph Lauren Woman
Jo Malone English Oak
Twilly d’Hermès
Comme des Garçons Concrete
Gucci Bloom
Chanel Gabrielle
Serge Lutens Dent de Lait

Blogroll

Bois de Jasmin
Grain de Musc
Perfume Posse
The Non-Blonde
More blogs...

Perfumista lists

100 fragrances every perfumista should try
And 25 more fragrances every perfumista should smell
50 masculine fragrances every perfumista should try
26 vintage fragrances every perfumista should try
25 rose fragrances every perfumista should try
11 Cheap Perfumes Beauty Outsiders Love

Favorite posts

Top 10 Spring Fragrances 2018
Perfume: the best of 2017
The Great Perfume Reduction Plan
Why I Love Old School Chypres
New to perfume and want to learn more?
How to make fragrance last through the day
Fragrance concentrations: sorting it all out
On reformulations, or why your favorite perfume doesn’t smell like it used to
How to get fragrance samples
Perfume for Life: How Long Will Your Fragrance Collection Last?

Upcoming

List of upcoming Friday projects

***

12 May ~ Haiku challenge

TBA May/June ~ freebiemeet

Back to Top

Home
About Now Smell This

Shop for Perfume Online
Perfume Shopping in New York
Perfume Shopping in London
Perfume Reviews
New Perfumes
General Perfume Articles
The Monday Mail

Glossary of Perfume Terms
Perfume FAQ
Perfume Links
Perfume Books
Fragrance Awards

Noses ~ Perfumers A-E :: F-K :: L-S :: T-Z

Perfume Houses A-B :: C :: D-E :: F-G
H-J :: K-L :: M :: N-O :: P :: Q-R :: S
T :: U-Z

Copyright © 2005-2018 Now Smell This. All rights reserved.