Vanille Seduisante

The home range at Le Labo is vast, with votives, candles, home fragrances, and a discovery set. Their scents follow the minimal and highly industrialized concept of focusing on materials. Their new home scent follows that path too. AMBROXYDE 17's magic comes from a synthetic molecule that will blow your nose away. It's what gives natural ambergris its arresting, can't-quite-find-the-right-word-for-it smell, and we can't get enough of it (the cruelty-free version, that is!).

At the start of 2023, the house of Mugler celebrates the birth of a new star within the Angel perfume family. Angel, the iconic gourmand from 1992, is now available in a contemporary flanker called Angel Elixir, reinvented to express the femininity of a fearless superwoman. According to the brand, the whole collection inspires the celestial, delicious, and fearless power of fragrance with each facet triggering a different emotion and a sensation that is wilder than dreams.

So many fragrances inspired by countries bathed in spices and resin are reminiscent of souks, man-made landscapes that take on the tone of a postcard. So easy to end up disappointed when one relies on armchair travel, flipping through Traveler and encyclopediae.