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Ain’t nothin’ like the smell of money, honey: freshly minted, its ink seared into the embossed filigree of that stiff, crisp scrip that is the focus of so many dreams. It’s so dizzyingly arresting it warrants pressing a new bill to your lips with tender care to breathe it in; but money, that fickle, fleeting lover, is false—his eyes rove over your shoulder, he winks at someone else, and he’s gone before you know it, slipped from your fingers into another’s, and only his shapeless, nameless, perfumed memory is left.
That smell, that essence, is here in artisan and jewelry iconoclast David Yurman’s first fragrance, David Yurman. With notes like rose otto, peony, and waterlily underscored by patchouli and musk, you’d never guess that its feminine scent really smells like money. In this bottle you can smell it freely, openly, and kiss the lover without clutching: your arms held back with confidence in his faithfulness.
If that’s not a lover you can curl up with on a cold, dark winter evening, the modern essence of a man—a study in bold contrasts —is. If men are pen and ink drawings to women’s blended pastels—sharp lines and stark contrasts to their melted-butter curves—then Porsche Design: The Essence is a men’s fragrance to match (the design studio was founded by the synonymous car maker). Here is the tough contraposition of black leather boots on a summer day in Phoenix—beating rays be damned—to loose white linen sleeves that ripple over toned copper forearms in a Caribbean breeze. This woodsy fragrance is all polarity: arctic juniper with spicy black pepper, domestic coriander with adventurous pine, and the icy blue bottle encased in a midnight black frame. It’s all this with that, here with there, up with down, bold yet stoically reticent, all in a way that makes you want to get close and whisper, “Tell me what you’re thinking.”
Yet there is no better place to get close than in Tuscany, the old-world paradise where pleasures of the flesh are more dignified than they are anywhere else. This season, Salvatore Ferragamo’s Tuscan Soul Lifestyle Home Collection comes home to wrap your hearth in the essence of the most celebrated state in Italy. The Lifestyle Home Collection takes last year’s personal fragrance through your doorstep and into dresser drawers, onto bathroom tiles, and drifting among coats in closets. Take winter on vacation to the tune of Florentine fruit (bergamot, petit grain, and fig tree) and floral notes (magnolia and orange blossom) to a destination where the days are longer and the nights are warmer: a Mediterranean garden in spring. Light yet luxurious, like plump tomatoes drenched in first press olive oil, it’s everything you’d expect from a fragrance named after one of the most pleasant places on the planet.
David Yurman fragrance available from DavidYurman.com
Porsche Design: The Essence available at Porsche Design retail stores, Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, and Nordstrom
Tuscan Soul Lifestyle Home Collection available in select Salvatore Ferragamo boutiques
