From Cereria Molla, the Gingerbread Madeleine candle: "Sweet Spiced Christmas! A fragrance that wraps you in fresh citrus and warm spices, blending with the sweetness of icing sugar, cinnamon, and meringue milk, and resting on a comforting base of vanilla and sponge cake, evoking the magic of Christmas", $50 for 230g at Candle Delirium.
Rossy de Palma telling fortunes, for Jean Paul Gaultier Holiday 2026.
Happy Friday and happy National Nachos Day! Birthdays: John Philip Sousa, Glenn Frey, Arturo Sandoval and Colson Whitehead. Our community project for today: wear the fragrance you’d like to give to your 21-year-old self (even if it wasn’t on the market at that time). Thanks go to Kanuka for the suggestion.
What fragrance did you pick? As always, do chime in with your scent of the day even if you’re not participating in the community project.
My 21 year old self was not going to give any thought at all to the relationship between gender and fragrance for some years yet…M7 would have been too big an ask, but I’m pretty sure Dior’s Eau Sauvage would have been an easy entry point…
Le Labo on Wheels is a mobile boutique of Le Labo, a New-York-born, high-end fragrance company. The pop-up — in Salt Lake City until Nov. 15 — visits cities across the globe to reach people without a brick-and-mortar store nearby. [...] Le Labo on Wheels is currently parked in Salt Lake City’s trendy 9th and 9th neighborhood, where it will remain until Nov. 15. It sits just outside Curriculum, a stylish barbershop and boutique, and I’m not kidding when I say you can smell it from the sidewalk — not overpoweringly so, but enough to invite in passersby.
— Read more in A perfume shop on wheels is betting on the in-person shopping trip at Deseret.
Are you still standing, after the gourmand wave — nay, flood — of 2025-2026? Or have you drowned in caramel-inspired compositions, marshmallow medleys, pistachio-pudding perfumes? Did you vow never to wear anything sweet, sticky or even remotely vanilla-centered ever again? If so, I’d completely sympathize. I’ve tried to dump the sugar and keep the spice. I’ve focused on my favorite florals. I’ve closed my eyes and nose to anything that mentions milk, mochi or matcha lattes.
But I can’t really change my deep-seated olfactory tastes: I do like to sniff a well-placed vanilla note from time to time. So, having taken something of a break, I allowed myself to venture back towards pâtisserie perfumery…