Lemons in the night

The lemon has long been a most versatile fruit - on its own, the small citrus isn’t much to consider, but when harmoniously united with other ingredients, the lemon’s properties become unparalleled. In its most basic duty, lemons added with sugar will give us refreshing lemonade, while adding the juice to baking soda provides a natural cleansing agent. A lemon can even give us light (a funny science experiment where by attaching electrodes to the fruit will generate electricity).

Edibles and experiments aside, I have long loved Fresh’s Sugar Lemon fragrance, which I pull out every year when the temperature warms up. The scent is summer to me and smells brilliantly like a fizzy lemon beverage, Lemongina if there was one. Somehow the summer heat also has a way of magnetizing the scent, enhancing it even more. Therefore when I heard about a new fragrance by C.O. Bigelow simply called Lemon, naturally I ran to test it out. If Sugar Lemon evoked a crisp lemon soda, Lemon was its grown-up counterpart: a complex lemon infused cocktail. I loved it immediately. My wrist suddenly had the essence of lemons in the night (which is the only way I can describe this wonderful new smell).

Later while I was in another store, I kept smelling what I thought to be a burning Diptyque candle. After poking around the entire store, I realized there was no candle. Yes, it was my wrist. A Diptyque candle (it doesn’t matter which scent) has an elegant complexity that is incredibly hard to place. Even though you have smelled a rose a million times, you have never smelled a Diptyque rose. Which is exactly how this new fragrance responds. Lemons, this scent is simply not. Again, it is the smart lemon that blends itself (white musk with green lemon leaves), turning a common piece of produce into this distinctive lemonade.

Tags: C.O. Bigelow, Diptyque, fragrance, Fresh, lemons, perfume, scent, Sugar Lemon, Summer, white musk.

Oh the backlash. Ever since Drew Barrymore showed up to the Golden Globes with a hairstyle that rivaled Tippi Hedren’s post-attack ‘do in The Birds, blogs have been ringing with adverse commentary on the Marilyn-inspired hairstyle. The Totam first reported on Barrymore’s Globes’ style here.

The man responsible for the askew updo is Italian hairstylist Giannandrea, who has worked in fashion for “20 years” and has responded to the negative blogger feedback that has descended on his work. “I try not to read blogs because there are a lot of mean people out there who are very incompetent in beauty and styling,” he said. “When I read some bloggers, they are clueless. Some people debated if it was too much for the Golden Globes, but I thought it is the Golden Globes and you can have a little more fun with the hair.”

Oh the cattiness. Yes, most bloggers do not have degrees from the Vidal Sassoon Academy, but then again, it’s hair. Anyone who has picked up a hairbrush or a blowdryer is an authority in our book. One of the good-humored aspects about these award shows is bestowing these frivolous “Best and Worst” accolades. Sometimes it’s a hit, sometimes it’s a miss, twenty years in fashion be damned. Giannandrea may have been having more fun with Drew’s hair, but bloggers are having their fun too (clueless and incompetent ones included).

Earlier: The Golden Globes Fashion Runway

Hollywood Hair (WWD)

Tags: bloggers, Drew Barrymore, Golden Globes, hair, The Birds, Tippi Hedren, Vidal Sassoon.