Digest · Issue 002

Lalibela is gone from Memo's site. The bottles aren't.

Sent 27 August 2026 to everyone on the list.

Second issue, and the pattern from the first one holds: the news that matters is usually something a house does without saying anything about it.

Memo Paris has taken Lalibela off its own store. Not sold out — gone. The product page redirects to the collection, and nothing under the name is left behind it: not the eau de parfum, not Lalibela Oud, not the candle or the body line that used to sit beside it. Irish Leather and Winter Palace open as normal, so this is one fragrance and not a shop being rebuilt. The house has said nothing at all. Bottles are still out there — Luckyscent has the 75 ml at $340 and two more boutiques have it in stock — but three shops have run out, two of them in the past week. It's on the Watch now, and we're reading it daily.

Traffic in the other direction: Mind Games has two pre-orders open, Arabian Mate and Knight's Tour, both $475 for 100 ml of extrait, both promised to ship on or before 28 August. These are pre-orders you can actually place — the bottle goes into the cart and the house gives a date — not a waiting list with a form. Two new noses for the house, too: Christine Hassan and Jordi Fernández.

Widian's London Black Edition has stopped being a promise. Three thousand bottles worldwide, and the first shop with them physically in hand quotes one to three days at 340 €. Gents in London still has 15 September pencilled in for its own delivery, so this one is reaching buyers ahead of the date the trade was given.

And one you could buy by accident: Imaginary Authors has rebuilt Yesterday Haze. The homepage announces it as The Second Edition, in letters you can read from across the room. Click through, though, and the product page is the old one's — same name, same synopsis, same seven notes, $115 for 50 ml, and nothing on it to tell you which version is in the bottle. Fragrantica files the new one as its own 2026 entry. If you loved the 2014, make sure you know what you're ordering.

What's leaving, what's landing, what it costs — checked daily, sourced always. It's all at snifflist.com.

On the Watch

LalibelaMemo ParisInvestigating

Added to the Watch — Memo Paris has taken Lalibela off its own store. The product page no longer loads at all — it redirects to the perfumes collection — and…

BoundlessAmouageInvestigating

A month on, the house has not moved: Boundless still stands on the US site at $395 under the line saying it is not available online there, and the EU store…

Tobacco MandarinByredoLast stock

Last stock — The last thing anyone could buy is getting smaller. The Perfumed Court, which has had Tobacco Mandarin on last call since July, has lost the 5 ml…

Halfeti CedarPenhaligon'sLast stock

The full size has left the house's own catalogue. In July the 100 ml still had a US page — sold out, offering a waitlist — and that page is now gone; what…

New on the Radar

Arabian MateMind GamesPre-order

Pre-order — expected 28 Aug

Knight's TourMind GamesPre-order

Pre-order — expected 28 Aug

London Black EditionWidianReleased

Launched Aug 25, 2026

Yesterday Haze (Second Edition)Imaginary AuthorsReleased

Launched August 2026

Persephone's RosePictura FragransReleased

Launched July 2026

ChicelleUnique'e LuxuryReleased

Launched June 2026

AndevaloNissabaReleased

Added to Snifflist Aug 26

Midnight RioMemoirs of a Perfume CollectorReleased

Added to Snifflist Aug 26

Chapter: MielMemoirs of a Perfume CollectorReleased

Added to Snifflist Aug 26

Chapter: Piña ColadaMemoirs of a Perfume CollectorReleased

Added to Snifflist Aug 26

Beso DeseoBeso BeachReleased

Launched Jul 31, 2026

Mystic MoonlightAtkinsonsReleased

Launched Jun 17, 2026

Spice of LondonAtkinsonsReleased

Launched Jun 17, 2026

Moon CoatSpace FluidReleased

Added to Snifflist Aug 20

Wooder IceRDZ ParfumsReleased

Launched Aug 21, 2026

EidAnfasReleased

Launched Aug 19, 2026

Price & stock moves

EliksiroJeroboam

Sold out at Alla Violetta Boutique

Montabaco IntensivoOrmonde Jayne

Sold out at Jovoy Paris

Roma KyotoProfumum Roma

Sold out at Ministry of Scent

Café ArabesqueLes Indémodables

Back in stock at Indigo Perfumery — $248.00

Heavy BubblegumL'Orchestre Parfum

Back in stock at Jovoy Paris — €160.00

Vanilla VirtuParaphrase

Back in stock at Ministry of Scent — $162.00

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