[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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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 […]
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 […]
13 Best Perfumes for Women, According to Beauty Insiders
[ad_1] The best perfumes have the ability to evoke memories, transport you through space, or perfectly encapsulate a feeling. They can usher in a mood shift or awaken the senses; other times a scent is just the thing to encourage a newfound sensuality or a boost of confidence. Our precise […]
Christy Turlington Burns on the Centrality of Motherhood and the Scent of ’90s Nostalgia
[ad_1] What does eternity mean at any given moment? Is it the diamonds-are-foreverness of true love, or the hollow certainty of life without parole? Is it what the weeks before Christmas feel like to a six-year-old, or the uncomfortable months before the due date to a first-time mother? Forever is […]
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 […]
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 […]