[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 […]
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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 […]
Perfumehead Pens a Love Letter to Hollywood in Scent Form
[ad_1] The Sunset Strip in the ’60s had a curious mascot twirling above the Sahara Hotel sign: a larger-than-life cowgirl visible from Gore Vidal’s room at the Chateau Marmont. “For me she is Hollywood, and mesmerizing,” says the title character in Myra Breckinridge, Vidal’s 1968 novel. Daniel Patrick Giles might […]
FKA twigs on Perfume as Spiritual Communion and the “Journey of Moving Forward”
[ad_1] FKA twigs, if not exactly clairvoyant, has a crystal-clear lens on the present. “I have fallen back in love with music, danger, trying new things, sex, love, raves,” she wrote in a recent Instagram post. No more careful cocooning. It’s time to live—holy rites by earthly means. “I’m […]
The Best Cologne for Men, According to 10 Cool Dads This Father’s Day 2022
[ad_1] Even in an era ruled by algorithm, it’s something of a gamble to go searching for the “best cologne for men.” The matter of fragrance—that which accompanies a person on the road and into bed and everywhere in between—is entwined with personality or subject to whim. Is the goal […]