Artist Lisa Kirk has launched Revolution, a fragrance created with perfumer Patricia Choux in 2008 for the conceptual art piece Revolution Pipe Bomb:
Through research gathered from interviews with anonymous journalists, activists, and political radicals, Kirk developed the Revolution fragrance…
For Christmas, I received a gift of patchouli soaps from India that smell like real patchouli (a scent I’ve almost forgotten in these days of clean, overly-sweet “patchouli” in perfumes). Authentic patchouli smells earthy-unclean, strong (determined to dominate other ingredients in perfumes), and has a nasal-passage-cleansing, herbal-menthol edge. What passes for patchouli in today’s fragrances shouldn’t be called “patchouli” at all; may I suggest:
iluohctap — ass-backwards patchouli…the opposite of earthy-unclean, herbal-menthol
atchou — sneeze-and-you’ll-miss-it patchouli
ou — aka “Ew!” (“This is so sweet, I think I’m going to throw up!”)
pali — patchouli with its heart, its GUTS, removed…
Ulrich Lang has launched Nightscape, a new fragrance for men:
A modern take on Patchouli, Nightscape is a sensual, mysterious and long lasting scent with notes of bergamot, “green” notes, a floral heart note of jasmine…
Stella McCartney in conversation with Alexandra Shulman (video, talks about new scent L.I.L.Y) http://t.co/VAKYigvK "French parfumier Guerlain on trial over 'race slurs'" article at Telegraph http://t.co/lVDxoZMi Vote for NST's Mood Board on FB and win a Zoya Nail Polish collection! http://t.co/MXHMN7I3