The Air is my space
It carries sounds and music; lights and colors; odors and perfumes
I am volatile like a scent
Life is a slipstream of perfume: it stays in our memories remembrances of precious meetings
Symine Salimpour brings to us a ‘world out of time'. Some Cafleurebon’s readers may not be familiar with her beautiful fragrances, inspired by her own life experiences. It is Symone's tenacity, her personal ideaology, spiritualism, and dedication to the art of perfumery that sets Symine apart. When I reunited with Symine at a recent Sniffapalooza event, …
Recently, my friend- in- fragrance, Wim Janssens and I had a bit of a "duel". Whilst I said Guerlain Habit Rouge is the fragrance of a gentleman, he proclaimed Guerlain Jicky is the scent of a confident man. He is right;I began to ponder 'what is a gentleman? It is a subject that has been on my mind for over …
The manifesto was entitled “I Hate Perfume” and it was a simple list dividing everything I hated about perfume as I generally encountered it from what I thought it could be. I’ve made a few slight changes in it over the years but I’m still surprised at how well it’s held up. Everything I’d written then still applies now 15 years later-Christopher Brosius
Over the past year, the reports of chemicals used in perfume causing everything from lack of concentration at work to breast cancer to lowering a man's sperm count has reached critical mass. In my own research, 1 in 5 Americans have allergies, most often to foods, pets and natural pollen. That is not say that …
Mandy Aftel is an indisputable icon in the world of perfumery, and quite arguably, the Mother of Natural Perfumery…
