More from the Lush Bridgerton collection: See and Be Seen Body Wash. "Freshen up for high tea with this lovely lathering wash made with the bestselling scent of Rose Jam. Apply onto a pouf or dip straight in and inhale the heady blend of rose, geranium and Sicilian lemon oils, as well as Pakistani rose absolute. Then wash your cares away with brightening fresh strawberry juice and calming fresh rose petal infusion. All that's left to do is step into your spotlight, smelling utterly sumptuous." $23 for 270g at Lush USA.
Maison Diptyque
The new Maison Diptyque store (remember?) at 7 rue Duphot in Paris.
Thursday scent of the day 5/9
Happy Almost-Friday! It’s also Europe Day and John Brown’s birthday. What fragrance are you wearing?
I’m in Tauer Perfumes Au Coeur du Désert.
Reminder: 5/10 is the International Day of Argania, so we’re off to Morocco…
You don’t just smell an aroma; you fall into it
“You don’t just smell an aroma; you fall into it,” writes artisan perfumer Mandy Aftel. And entering her exquisite small museum, the Aftel Archive of Curious Scents, tucked into a backyard in Berkeley, is to fall into an ancient, mysterious world. Amid centuries-old books, bottles and curios are natural fragrances that come from the secretions of civets and the bowels of sperm whales, as well as from resins, rare flowers, roots and so much more. We talk to Aftel about her collection, the art of building a fragrance, and her new book, “The Museum of Scent: Exploring the Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance”.
— Listen to Mandy Aftel at Berkeley Perfumer Mandy Aftel on the 'Curious and Wondrous World of Fragrance' at KQED.
The daily lemming
From Le Feu de L'Eau, the Petale candle: "Created without using a mold, each candle is sculpted underwater with a high-temperature wax. The color is hand mixed and the fragrances are custom blended into a soy candle filling, which melts at a quicker rate than the exterior wax so that as the candle burns the exterior becomes a wax shell. It sounds more complicated than it is. Just know it’s beautiful." With tuberose, iris and orange peel, $70 for 425g at Hero Shop.