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30 Nov

This perfumer discovered the scent of pure evil –

This perfumer discovered the scent of pure evil –
David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi’s brand Toskovat creates concept-based perfumes designed to evoke memories, from a Christmas-themed critique of capitalism with notes of cocaine, to a scent that reveals we're all just moths to the flame of evil The creator of Toskovat doesn’t want you to wear his perfume. Specifically, Inexcusable Evil – a scent that incorporates notes of blood, bandages and burning flowers. “I actually despise the smell,” he tells Dazed, speaking from his creative hub in Romania. David-Lev Jipa-Slivinschi is the Bucharest-based nose behind this small batch perfumery that’s drawn a surge of interest amid an increase in perfumes with creative, unusual and even disturbing accords. “If we lived in a greater world, there...
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17 Nov

Fifth Avenue Will Smell Like Nest Recent York’s ‘Holiday’

Fifth Avenue Will Smell Like Nest Recent York’s ‘Holiday’
The well-loved sights and sounds of Fifth Avenue will soon be joined by a signature scent. In a first-of-its-kind partnership for each parties, home and positive fragrance company Nest Recent York has teamed up with The Fifth Avenue Association to scent the avenue with its bestselling “Holiday” fragrance from Nov. 24 through the top of the 12 months. “We’re excited to bring one other dimension to the vacation experience on Fifth Avenue,” said Marie Ternes Boster, president of the Fifth Avenue Association. “Everyone desires to surprise and delight, but I feel this [partnership] nails that.” One-hundred-and-fifty lighted Christmas trees — a combination of fraser and noble fir — will line the avenue’s sidewalks from forty sixth through 61st Streets, with...
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15 Nov

Chaka Khan On Creating Her “Life’s Scent” With HSN

Chaka Khan On Creating Her “Life’s Scent” With HSN
Getty Images / Michael Putland Chaka Khan’s unmistakable voice is one that may immediately make you desire to get in your feet. Whether it’s on “I’m Every Woman” or “Ain’t No one,” the Chicago-native has been blessing us along with her buttery-smooth vocals because the Seventies. As if that weren’t enough, she’s all the time been one to serve up aspirational hair and makeup looks, too. This includes every thing from big, auburn curls and perfectly coiffed afros, to fuchsia lipsticks.  Relating to beauty, Khan tells us, at Quad Recording Studios, “I’ve all the time been a fragrance freak, too.” Which is why it is smart for her to be launching her own perfume, Chaka by Chaka Khan, with fragrance house, HSN...
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23 May

Bath & Body Works to Launch Laundry Detergent, Scent

Bath & Body Works to Launch Laundry Detergent, Scent
Bath & Body Works is entering fabric care. The corporate will debut its first laundry detergents and scent boosters online and in 80 stores this fall, with plans to later introduce fabric softeners and other products inside the category. “The client was asking [for fabric care], and we began to take a look at the market, which is over a $13 billion market, and we don’t own any share in it — as a market leader, we thought we had an enormous opportunity,” said Julie Rosen, president of Bath & Body Works. From now through May 29, members of the Bath & Body Works loyalty program can vote for which Bath & Body Works fragrances they would really like...
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