Ellen Covey of Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes

Award winning Seattle Indie Perfumer Dr. Ellen Covey, who has created an impressive body of work in both natural and mixed media fragrance and has created successful collaborations with Blackbird Ballard Apothecary, The Face Book Group Peace, Love & Perfume, author Sheila Eggenberger (Dev Scents) and Michelyn Camen, the Editor in Chief of ÇaFleureBon on Sonnet XII is launching two new perfumes.  Wood Cut is a fragrance with an underlying environment message and Mardi Gras a scented celebration of New Orleans famed carnival known for its masques, parades and mayhem , also known as Fat Tuesday and the last hurrah before Lent which begins the next day Ash Wednesday.

 “Strong lines and delicate tracery combine to tell an archetypal tale of man’s rape of the earth. Woodcut conjures up dark images of ancient trees inhabited by spirits from a time when the earth was new, the flowing sap of felled trees, and the burnt sugar of the trees’ blood when it is heated by the saws of lumbermen and builders. The inspiration for this fragrance came from passing by a building site where old trees had been newly cut for a development and lumber was being sawed for a fence. The scent of cut wood was intoxicatingly beautiful and primitive, like a fleeting glimpse of the invisible essence of life spilled carelessly on the ground and burned as an offering to human greed. Notes: Fractional distillations of pine and cedar, oakwood absolute, tolu balsam, olibanum, caramel, burnt sugar, vanilla.

Launch date: December 19, 2014. Available in parfum concentration in the following sizes:  5 ml travel spray ($18), 15 ml screw-top bottle ($35) and 30 ml spray ($65).

 

“Every year in late winter New Orleans puts on a grand party like no other. It’s a rainbow-hued, glittering, skanky, riotous, celebration of everything there is to celebrate, flowing in and out like a shiny snake amidst the flower-strewn, humidity-drenched, decaying streets of the French Quarter. Mardi Gras may present a polite, rich veneer of real orange blossom and vanilla, like a southern belle delicately munching on a beignet dusted with powdered sugar, but behind the pretty, festive costume are dark undercurrents of voodoo and hoodoo, midnight rituals and outrageous secrets that can only be unleashed under the protective camouflage of the innocent-looking mask”. Notes: Orange blossom, neroli, cistus, benzoin, vanilla, civet, special musk blend.

Scheduled launch date: February 17, 2015. Available in parfum concentration in the following sizes:  5 ml travel spray ($18), 15 ml screw-top bottle ($35) and 30 ml spray ($65).

 

Via Ellen Covey of Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes

-Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief