Love this handmade collection of sophisticated perfume bottles made of black soap by Liza Witte. The ephemeral sculptures will melt away, serving beauty, and be washed away. [ Continue reading ]

Prospector Co. is a new company bringing men’s skincare and shaving products. From pre-shaving, post-shaving, unshaven scruff to a beard gone wild, they have it all. And all with natural ingredients, blended and packaged by hand in small batches. This Burroughs Beard Oil has the… [ Continue reading ]

Love this newcomer La Belle Échoppe. Simple, beautiful, well made goods with a history and an interesting approach, born from the collaboration between FrenchTrotters and redingote.
Inspired by “Qualités de vie, objets des valeurs quotidienne” from 1991, a book about what’s beautiful and well made, and what was important in people’s life’s at that time, they made a nice curated selection of products, entirely dedicated to “made in France”. My favorites are definitely this grey Desert Boot with recycled rubber sole, made in Lower Normandy by Eimpreinte and the Eau de Cologne à la Française by Institut Très Bien. [ Continue reading ]

A lovely new fragmented candle by Byredo: The Tree House. The smell is poetic, with a top of pimento and bamboo, a mid of hay, labdanum and myrrh and a base of blond cedarwood, guaiac wood, sandalwood and leather. Specially  created for Byredo’s Japan launch… [ Continue reading ]

Nº39. Feu de Bois by Diptyque at Tenue de Nîmes >… [ Continue reading ]

Nº 25. The new Eau de Parfum M/MINK, a collaborative effort between Byredo and creative partnership M/M (Paris). >… [ Continue reading ]

Just a quick note with a beautiful photograph of my favorite perfume by Emil Larsson. Byredo it is!… [ Continue reading ]

Shigenobu Twilight is a hand-distilled fragrance in hand cut cedar wooden bottles by the New York based artist and architect Anicka Yi & Maggie Peng. The scent uses three different kinds of cedar wood as its base note, along with violet leaf and nutty… [ Continue reading ]

Just got this lovely christmas gift from Tenue de Nîmes; The new fragrance by Byredo – Baudelaire. Byredo described this new Eau de Parfum as ” …a lazy isle to which nature has given singular trees, savory fruits, men with bodies vigorous and slender,… [ Continue reading ]

The new issue of Blend Magazine just hit the stores, so time for us to share our new treasures. This time featuring our favorite notebooks from Rhodia, the lovely gypsy water by Byredo, de Red Wing 6″ Classic Moc and this beautiful… [ Continue reading ]

New treasures in the new Blend nr 45 featuring Marijn Akkermans, the Gentleman’s Cap by Rapha, our favorite new danish label Libertine-Libertine and the Le Labo candle Petit Grain 21. Enjoy Blend (dutch) here > and… [ Continue reading ]

‘I hate perfume. Perfume is too often an ethereal corset trapping everyone in the same unnatural shape A lazy and inelegant concession to fashionable ego Too often a substitute for true allure and style An opaque shell concealing everything – revealing nothing A childish masque… [ Continue reading ]

The beautiful new commercial Flora by Guccy. Directed by Chris Cunningham. [ Continue reading ]