Ten gift ideas under $50:
From Gianni Rose, 4 pear-shaped soaps: “Enjoy the scent of freshly picked pairs [sic] with these 4 French-milled soaps, enriched with moisture-rich buttermilk and exfoliating oatmeal.” $33 at Caswell Massey…
Voluspa has introduced the Opulence collection, including five new Eaux de Parfum:
Lemon Lily (shown) ~ “…combines crisp white casablanca lily and California citrus fruits that create a very fresh and clean scent. SO perfect for summer!”…
It’s that time of year again! Some suggestions for holiday fragrance gifts, big and small…
If Santa is bringing me my heart’s desire, this is it: the Annick Goutal Les Orientalistes coffret. Ambre Fétiche, Myrrhe Ardente and Encens Flamboyant, each in 50 ml, in a white leather box. €500. I haven’t smelled them yet, but at the moment, that just adds to their charm. No idea where you can buy it, but the elves will figure it out…
Voluspa has introduced two new fragrances in the Victoria collection, Malayan Coco and Fleur de Café.
Malayan Coco (shown) ~ “A sumptuous combination of coconut milk accord, shaved coconut bark, rich sandalwood and Eastern hinoki wood. Escape to warm tropical, exotic locales.”
Fleur de Café ~ “An intoxicating combination of African Coffee Flower…”
When I was growing up in Virginia, every summer my grandmother and her sister Delia would take me huckleberry picking. Huckleberry bushes grew along ditches at the edge of woods, so one had to contend with ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, gnats, horseflies, and the occasional snake as one picked the fruit. To foil this onslaught of biting varmints, my grandmother would wear a striking outfit that made her look like a character from a Charles-Dickens-Meets-Flannery-O’Connor tale: a long-sleeved, ground-dragging dress, a tall straw-and-linen bonnet, a gauze scarf that fell to her hips, and, most strangely, kerosene-moistened cotton rags tied in bows around her ankles and wrists.
My grandmother felt sure this get-up would protect her from all manner of animal attack. It certainly attracted attention from passersby — they would slow down their cars and stare at the two elderly women (looking ghostly in their old fashioned white and pale blue outfits) hovering in the shade of the woodland. Me? Between short stints of labor-intensive berry picking, I was usually hidden in the woods, rummaging through the cooler for things to eat and drink…
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