[ad_1] Is it the coolest time ever in New York—late ’70s, early ’80s, the punk scene? It’s got to be top three,” says David Moltz, the ebullient perfumer of Brooklyn’s D.S. & Durga, when discussing his salt-sprayed ode to Rockaway Beach. The fragrance shares its name with the sandy stretch […]
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D.S. & Durga’s Kavi and David Moltz Tune in With Black Tea and Venice Beach Nature Walks
[ad_1] “The Pacific itself is so looming and crazy,” says David Moltz, D.S. & Durga’s self-taught perfumer, who grew up in the seaside town of Swampscott, Massachusetts. He first caught a glimpse of that “massive” expanse of water during a band tour through Northern California; years later, a lingering feeling […]
Lukas Gage Keeps Making Waves
[ad_1] Lukas Gage—beach lover, newlywed, The White Lotus alum—knows paradise when he sees it. “The water is a turquoise food-colored blue that I’ve never seen in my entire life. The sun hits it in this way that you can see these golden flakes go through the water,” the actor says […]
Austin Butler on Motorcycles, Marlon Brando, and the Scent of Nuanced Masculinity
[ad_1] Call it a bit of French humor, that one of the most striking portraits of Yves Saint Laurent should show the fashion designer stripped of his clothes. The year was 1971. Photographer Jeanloup Sieff and his sandy-haired subject decided on a spare set-up: three black leather cushions stacked on […]
The Bride Wore Orange Blossom: A History of Wedding Day Scents
[ad_1] When Queen Victoria married her beloved Prince Albert in 1840, she cast aside the traditions of earlier noble-born brides—and unwittingly changed the course of wedding history. For one thing, she proposed. In lieu of a velvet jewel-toned look, she chose a white dress (a trend that she is credited […]
Adwoa Aboah on Gurls Talk Dialogues and the Off-Kilter Side of Fragrance
[ad_1] Adwoa Aboah owes her green thumb to happenstance. “I’ve got a south-facing garden, which my mom’s really jealous about because it just grows everything in it,” the Londoner says of her home there, surprisingly lush. “It’s a hot box.” Aboah considers herself a late bloomer in the horticultural sense, […]
10 Cool Moms on Their Go-to Perfume
[ad_1] Perfume is a many-splendored thing. It is a gateway to armchair travel, a Proustian madeleine worn on the pulse points, an invisible means of getting dressed. This time of year, it also makes a worthwhile gift: for your own mother or the one you’re married to, or maybe someone […]
Vanessa Kirby Takes a Walk on the Wild Side
[ad_1] “There is something so primal about being a woman. Women create life,” Vanessa Kirby says, speaking on a recent evening from her home in London. She zooms out, as if taking in the astronaut view: “It’s like, the earth is called Mother Earth.” Kirby certainly can relate on a […]
A New Suite of Fragrances Puts a Waste-Not Ethos to the Test
[ad_1] “The idea is to create not just beauty, but the beauty of the 21st century,” says Nicolas Gerlier, the charismatic Frenchman behind La Bouche Rouge. The maison de haute beauté debuted its first lipsticks in 2017, pairing considered formulas with hand-stitched leather cases—instant heirlooms in pale blue and camel […]
Elliot Page Has a New Kind of Superpower in Mind
[ad_1] Elliot Page is dressed in a black hoodie and thick-rimmed glasses, his person scaled down to the three-inch window of a video-conference call. Such levels of mediation (sartorial, technological, PR) usually make for a somewhat inscrutable conversation, where the tangible human qualities are rendered as flat as the screen. […]
Elle Fanning on Queenly Makeup, From Blush on ‘The Great’ to Vivienne Westwood as Muse
[ad_1] It has been nearly six decades since Truman Capote invited 540 pals to the Plaza Hotel for the Black and White Ball—a swanning crowd that included Frank Sinatra, Babe Paley, Gordon Parks, Andy Warhol, and the Italian princess Luciana Pignatelli gleaming in a 60-carat diamond (a Harry Winston loaner). […]
Sydney Sweeney Has a Nose for Wanderlust
[ad_1] It’s fitting that Sydney Sweeney is stationed someplace vacation-worthy. In season one of The White Lotus, her character Olivia—Gen Z angel of disdain—endures a Hawaiian family trip by thumbing through Nietzsche and Lacan. Lately, the actor’s location is similarly cinematic, albeit with less ennui. “I’m in Rome. Rome, Italy,” […]