Ms. Earle’s love of natural ingredients and dedication to creating chemical free products inspired her to introduce a new fragrance- Botanical Essence #1, may come from the U.K but Jean Charles Niel, Perfumer, hails from France
We often joke about having to smuggle fragrance into the country via our Paris, london,Milan and New York bound perfumista friends . At the top of our list are mostly French owned perfume companies…Serge Lutens and Le Labo, for example. A former Air France Flight Hostess had four flacons confiscated. What was inside?
The interesting character about Brosius’ distinction relates to just that — a focus and attention to build on a dream of exploring the complexities of the fragrance space, then actually building a place, a personalized retail space to tell that story. What I found compelling about the modeling of this “celebrity perfume” is the nature of it’s antithetical character and vitality of build. Anti-celebrity, so called. Rather than the hazy “image charts” and “marketing briefs” of conventional fragrance houses — Brosius and Cumming worked together, building and exploring: notes on that experience offer a hint of that collaboration
A tour of the French landmark at 31 Rue Cambon is not granted to just anyone. Sergei Borisov was granted this privilege and now dear readers, take a tour of the personal apartments of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, filled with symbolism in every room; including Vanessa Paradis’s “gilded birdcage”
François Hénin and Jovoy offer to two CaFleureBon readers two wonderful gifts: One “Quand ? 50ml, and one very fortunate winner will receive a splendid coffret set of Jovoy “7 Parfums Capitaux WAS IT YOU?
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje is a story of love, war and betrayal (towards relationships and political affiliations). The central characters come from different backgrounds, play very different roles. On a personal note, this novel is on my “100 Books You Must Read Before You Die List”. The movie doesn’t count, so don’t feel it is a substitute for the novel.
