Christine Jacobson

Jan 6, 2024 | luxelibris.substack.com | Simon Garfield |W.w. Norton |Christine Jacobson

Happy New Year Luxe Libris readers!I hope your 2023 came to a shimmering or quiet close (whichever you needed) and that your 2024 is off to as gentle a start as possible. I spent the holidays at home with my family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, watching screwballs and doing jigsaw puzzles with rosemary gimlets close at hand, which is just what I needed.

Apr 4, 2023 | luxelibris.substack.com | Christine Jacobson

I first encountered Lauren Cerand when she was the inaugural guest of Running on Fumes, an Instagram Live show for perfume-heads hosted by New Yorker writer (and Twitter’s beloved “perfume genie”) Rachel Syme. The brief cocktail-hour show was one of those lockdown-era rituals that helped me structure my week and be in community with others, even if they were strangers (and even if I didn’t know anything about perfume).