How is everyone? I didn’t know how I’d approach holidays this year with increasing restrictions in the greater NYC area, and general feelings of disconnectedness. I ended up taking this time away from being online, so please give me a bit more time if I haven’t replied to your DM/message over on Instagram. As we near the end of this…
Earlier this year, we’ve started exploring happiness as it pertains to our self-care (e.g. The Fullest Saffron Latte review). As 2020 comes to a close, fragrance has risen to be the unforeseen largest growing category in times of quarantine, and social unrest that manifest feelings of disconnectness, anxiety, and overall stress. Fragrance has made strides transitioning from a purely experiential…
The Topical Supplement The Nue Co. landed on our radar in their first year of release as a brand to watch. Their combination of Doctor-meets-supermodel aesthetic, innovative products, and high quality formulas have won us over. The Pill is their latest product. It’s a topical supplement, designed as an all-in-one serum. While most supplement companies stick to ingestibles, The Nue…
In Fiore is hard to pin down. The brand has been around since the late 90s, longer than most would imagine. It’s certainly existed long before the boom of green then clean beauty, and the focus on botanicals. In Fiore has had many lives. A San Francisco-based apothecary brand, with a Japanese arm, drawing from rituals the world over. A…
Fragrances are such a complex thing to write about. There is no swatching, no scratch-and-sniff, and the experiences are highly personal rather than universal. When clean beauty took off, fragrances became sort of an under-represented category. Without doubt, it’s not that demand wasn’t there for clean fragrance. The heady, irritating fumes at Sephora are the stuff of notoriety. The clean…
