No. 35
DND - Gel & Lacquer - Plum Wine - #453
$A creme purple the colour of the last inch in a wine glass. Dark enough for the stalls.
Issue 6
Stage Door Rain
Sophie
Beauty & Scent Editor
No. 37
DND - DC Duo - Blue Plum - #DC101
$Muted grey-blue, opaque and calm. Wet slate pavement, on your fingertips under the marquee lights.
No. 38
DND - Hema-Free & TPO-Free Gel & Lacquer - Glass Plum - 063
$Jewel purple with a high-gloss finish. Looks like a dark window with the lamps on behind it.
No. 43
L'Occitane Mini Hand Cream Lavender 1 oz/ 30 mL
$Lavender in a pocket-sized tube. Smells like a linen cupboard in August, handy for November.
No. 40
Moroccanoil Hand Cream Ambre Noir 3.4 oz / 100 mL
$Ambre Noir for the coat pocket: a cream for gloved hands that smell better afterwards.
No. 42
Salt & Stone Bergamot & Hinoki Nourishing Hand Cream with Niacinamide + Seaweed Extract 2 oz / 60 mL
$Bergamot and hinoki, a clean cedar-ish note for the cloakroom queue. Keeps company with wool.
No. 45
L'Occitane Softening Hand Cream Set
$Three little creams, one for the bag, one for the desk, one for the bedside table.
No. 44
Prada Paradoxe Eau de Parfum Travel Spray with White Musk & Amber 0.33 oz / 10 mL eau de parfum spray
$White musk and amber in a travel spray: the bone-coloured, warm-inside part of the evening.
No. 41
Burberry Goddess Parfum with Vanilla and Leather 1.6 oz/50 ml parfum spray
$$Vanilla, lavender and a suede leather accord. Like a good glove warmed in a coat pocket.
No. 39
Viktor & Rolf Spicebomb Dark Leather Eau de Parfum with Incense & Dark Leather 3.04 oz eau de parfum spray
$$Black pepper, incense and dark leather. Smells like the velvet curtain after the house lights drop.
No. 36
TOM FORD Eau d'Ombre Leather Eau de Toilette with Vanilla & Amber 1.7 oz / 50 mL eau de toilette spray
$$Glowing leather with vanilla and amber: lamplit, a little spiced, best worn indoors after rain.
No. 34
TOM FORD Ombré Leather Eau de Parfum with Patchouli & Vetiver 3.3 oz/ 100 mL
$$$Black leather, violet and jasmine. The most theatrical thing on this page, and rather good company.
Jack
Critic at Large
No. 21
Chie Mihara Teil Buckle-detail Patent Loafers
$$$Everyone reaches for the plain loafer. This one has a square toe, block heel and gold buckle, so it earns the walk home.
Chie Mihara Taleah Studded Leather Loafers
$$$Grape patent is the dissenting vote: close enough to plum black to belong, with studs for the curtain call.