UPDATED: Perfume: Ack! Serge Lutens discontinuations!

In the unlikely event that you read my blog and don't read Perfume Shrine (yeah, right), this is to point you to an article about four Serge Lutens discontinuations.

Douce Amere! I only have a decant! The budget forbids it! What do I do?

Update: Phew! It's not as bad as it sounded. See the Perfume Shrine update, but the summary is that they're just being taken off the export line - they'll be harder to get, but they aren't vanishing from the face of the earth. However, the list of fragrances has changed - replace Clair de Musc with Santal Blanc, on the list of those that will no longer be exported.

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Compilation: Reformulation, Discontinuation, Perfume Hoarding, and Panic

So I just saw One More Good Article on the topic that I think of as perfume separation anxiety, and decided that I want to assemble a compilation.

This isn't remotely every good article on the subject, it's just the ones I found first, plus ones that I come across as I'm reading. Plus, I'm focusing more on loss than on the IFRA, because, well, as depressing as loss is, the IFRA is more depressing.

So:

• The Buyer of Backup Bottles, Strategist or Squirrel? from Bonkers About Perfume.
• On reformulations, or why your favorite perfume doesn't smell the way it used to from Now Smell This.
• Gloomy Sunday, from Perfume-Smellin' Things.
• Endangered Fragrances from 1000 Fragrances.
• The Lost Perfumes, a continuing theme on The Non Blonde. (I'm linking to just one of the posts.)
• Smells Like Joy, from OlfactaRama.
• Samples: The Addiction, from Feminine Things.
• The Allure of the Discontinued Scent, from Now Smell This.
• Perfumista tip: how to find out if a fragrance is discontinued from Now Smell This.
• Should An Old Fragrance Be Forgot, from The Wall Street Journal.
• My Favorite Fragrance is Discontinued...Now What? from Perfume Shrine.
• It's the end of the world as we know it from Perfume Shrine.

And for grieving for specific perfumes:

• Guerlain Attrape Coeur is Shot Through the Heart! from Perfume Shrine.
• Another Perfume Ruined: Harem by LR from Fragrance Bouquet.
• Serge Lutens multiple discontinuations: Oh My! from Perfume Shrine.
• Serge Lutens - Where Does He Go From Here? from The Non Blonde.

(Edited to add Harem. And the Wall Street Journal piece. And now the two about Lutens discontinuations.)


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