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Lancôme's rose fields, Tucked away in the South of France, are a floriferous, honeyed celebration of perfumery's past — and a bridge to a sweeter future for the region of Grasse. Executive beauty director Jenny Bailly, recalls her experience, stepping food on the farmland while taking us step by step, throughout the entire fragrance-making process — from bud to bottle.
As you probably observed during the throes of the pandemic last spring, hair doesn't stop growing just because there's nowhere to go to get it cut. And since there's nothing worse than pushing overgrown bangs out of your face as you, say, measure the depth of an ice cap, scientists and government workers at McMurdo Station in Antarctica built the world's southernmost salon. Before you dial up your congressperson: Your tax dollars were not spent on gold-plated shampoo bowls. This salon is a modest, one-room, two-chair operation staffed by a single hairstylist. For five seasons (that's how staf...