Author Caroline Simpson

April 3, 2025

THE CLASSIC Serge Lutens scent, Jeux de Peau is now available at London's Harrods store as part of the Falcons de Table range. Launched in 2011, so a pioneer in the skin-scent trend, the spicy, warm and sub...

Burberry announce partnership with V&A Museum to transform Fashion Gallery

April 1, 2025

Fashion, News

BURBERRY and the V&A South Kensington, London have announced their partnership for a major transformation of the museum’s Fashion Gallery. This is part of a multi-year partnership between the British fashi...

Glossier launch new fragrance for Spring – You Fleur

March 28, 2025

GLOSSIER have just added You Fleur to their bestselling You universe of skin scents. This new edition to the You wardrobe, Fleur builds on the warm and intimate skin fragrance profile that the Glossier You col...

Glass speaks to Quentin Bisch about creating the Le Sel d’Issey fragrance

March 26, 2025

BORN IN Strasbourg, the 41-year-old Quentin Bisch’s journey to becoming a leading perfumer has taken an unconventional route. Traditionally, you need to study chemistry first in order to become a perfumer, how...

Glass speaks to leading perfumer Lyn Harris of Perfumer H

March 18, 2025

Glass speaks to Lyn Harris of Perfumer H about her journey from a Saturday job in a perfume shop in Halifax to becoming a world-class perfumer ALTHOUGH classically trained in perfumery, Yorkshire-born Lyn H...

Chanel Beauty launches the Rouge Coco Playground in Covent Garden

March 17, 2025

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, News

TO CELEBRATE Chanel’s Rouge Coco lipsticks – as well as the house’s 10th anniversary as the first flagship beauty boutique in Covent Garden – Chanel are opening the Rouge Coco Playground – an immersive pop-up ...

Glass talks to Dior Beauty’s international grooming ambassadors

January 10, 2025

Beauty, Feature, Male grooming, Skincare

COINCIDING with the launch of its innovative Dior Sauvage Grooming Collection, Sauvage Mencare, Dior Beauty has appointed three grooming ambassadors – the Dublin-born, east London-based Hayden Cassidy; Vince G...

Peter Hujar show to open at Raven Row, London in January

December 10, 2024

Art, Exhibitions, News

AMERICAN photographer Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark is opening at Raven Row Gallery, London from 30 January to 6 April 2025. The first posthumous show to have access to the all the work of the influen...

image of bottles of perfumes recently launched in Autumn 2024

The Glass Edit of Autumn Scents for Men

December 4, 2024

FOR THIS Autumn’s scent selections, I feel I have been on a very wide-ranging and expansive – olfactive – journey. From the spice trails through Florence, London at night, Great Gatsby-esque parties, expe...

The Glass Edit of Autumn Scents for Women

November 23, 2024

THIS Glass fragrance edit features an abundance of ambers. Warming, magnetic and mysterious, it is the perfect autumnal accord, and one of my favourites. We also include some intriguing fragrances inspired by ...

Hermès debuts new fragrance – Barénia

October 21, 2024

HERMÈS fragrances often explore the heritage and codes of the house. And their latest fragrance and eau de parfum – Barénia is no exception to this. (Barenia being a kind of leather often used by the brand to ...

Glass talks to Kristoffer Vural about his oral care brand – Selahatin

October 16, 2024

Beauty, Dental care, Feature, Wellbeing

SWEDISH-Turkish entrepreneur Kristoffer Vural is a former magazine editor who suffered a stroke at the age of 25 that paralysed him for a year. During this time, he underwent a lot of physical therapy in order...

Nan Goldin new work opens at Gagosian, New York

September 12, 2024

Art, Culture, Exhibitions, News

A SHOW of new work by artist Nan Goldin entitled You never did anything wrong opens in New York this week. The exhibition consists of extensive new photography as well as two moving-image installations. Thi...

Glass guide to Chanel′s Les Beiges Healthy Glow make-up

September 10, 2024

Beauty, Cosmetics We Love, Feature, News

SUMMER may be drawing to an end in the UK, at least – despite an unpromising start this year. However, if you are a sun lover and want to preserve some of your sun-kissed glow, Chanel’s Les Beiges H...

Lightening up – the Glass round up of new scents for men

August 22, 2024

THE GODS of perfume have blessed us with an eclectic range of recent launches. Be they drop-dead gorgeous juices, splashy colognes, spicy numbers or scents inspired by post-apocalyptic skyscrapers, volcanic ro...

New blossoms – Glass reviews some of our favourite summer perfume launches

July 18, 2024

SOME OF the recently launched fragrances that have caught our attention include some reworked classics and perfumes inspired by haute couture, as well as opulent love potions, sun-warmed seas, skin scents and ...

Bastille Paris celebrates Bastille Day with new perfume – 14 Juillet

July 14, 2024

THE FRENCH perfume house Bastille Paris has – appropriately – just launched a new fragrance, 14 Juillet, to celebrate the inspiration of the brand’s name which believes in freedom of choice for all “their own ...

Glass speaks to perfumer Marc-Antoine Barrois – founder of his eponymous fragrance house

July 9, 2024

Glass speaks to Marc-Antoine Barrois, founder of the eponymous fragrance house, about his vision for the brand, his parallel career in haute couture and his company’s extraordinary success BORN in no...

Chanel launches limited-edition Chanel N°5 L’Eau – Just a Drop

June 24, 2024

CHANEL has dropped a limited-edition bottle of N°5 L’Eau shaped as very tactile translucent pebble shape called N°5 L’eau Drop. Departing from the traditional N°5 bottle shape – inspired by a whiskey flask...

Pop-star Mabel designs t-shirt with young people affected by Grenfell Tower fire