Diptyque Volutes
The journey that Yves Coueslant, one of the three founders, used to make as a child on the transatlantic liners that connected Marseilles to Saigon provides the inspiration for the latest fragrance from diptyque, Volutes. The dominating scents of Yves journey are the volute and tobacco. Smoking fumes from the liner’s chimneys. Foamy wakes. Flights of silk and chiffon and wafts of expensive perfumes. …transatlantic liners that connected Marseilles... Read More
Top 10 Hand Washes
In numerical order of supremacy, this list, compiled from customer feedback, popularity, innovation, ingredients, results, price and Ape to Gentleman’s testers displays the Top 10 Hand Washes that the industry has to offer. While hand washes are in function a necessity, the perfect hand wash will make you look forward to an otherwise routine process. With that in mind our Top 10 is ordered on scent, texture and lather, as well as their core function... Read More
Friday Five: Onra, ‘LifeHacker’, Porsche Design, Lacoste Candle and Aertex…
How to ‘sharpen’ your razor blade with your arm… The problem (or great thing depending on how you look at it) with YouTube is that anyone with a camera and a computer becomes an expert. There are no qualifications needed, no YouTube Certified exams, just upload a video with your opinion and job done! Such is the case with this semi-nude Gentleman, known as Terrypun on Youtube (or Lifehacker as ShaveBlog call him) who claims that... Read More
Diptyque Vetyverio
Diptyque‘s new fragrance Vetyverio is a far cry from the original vision of the brands creators back in 1961. Diptyque was founded by three artisans united by a passion for creativity and design: painter Desmond Knox-Leet, set designer Yves Coueslant, and Christiane Gautrot, who worked in an architecture firm. Their original plan was to design and market cotton print fabrics, but scented candles, introduced in 1963 as something of a sideline,... Read More
Luxury fragrance brands defy the recession
I came across an interesting article on the Financial Times website FT.com written by Jim Shi who has reported prosperous times for 4 of the worlds luxury fragrance brands – Creed, Bond No 9, Diptyque and Frédéric Malle. The FT forbid us distributing their text on Ape to Gentleman but please feel free to read their full article here. Links FT.com Creed UK Creed USA Bond No 9 Diptyque Frédéric Malle Read More
