As early as the the third century, Romans built elaborate bath houses. It is from these ancient origins that the founders behind a beautiful line of bath and shower products, Palatium, drew their inspiration .
What Mr. Brosius does is to take that concentrated vanilla and swathe it in resins which serve to accentuate not the common sweet character but the much more uncommon smoky character.
Ben Gorham, the creative force behind the Byredo perfume line, has interpreted the Dance of the Seven Veils literally. I am transported and seduced and left longing for more
As an intuitive perfumer, my hope is to awaken or deepen the link between a person’s sixth sense and sense of smell. When a person smells a perfume that they really love, their whole body recognizes it as ‘Yes, this smells like Me!”
My journey into perfumery and the creative forces continue. I love creating memories or capturing a fleeting moment in one’s life of experiences to create that one special fragrance. The color, texture and especially the fragrance of blending custom perfumes continues to captivate me and draws me into its seductive web.
So certainly Serge Lutens knows his cool, but do we know M. Lutens? Only as well as to know that nothing of that which he says in anticipation of the release of his perfumes, can prepare us for what’s to come. So I think I’ve learned to sit back and wait, inhale, exhale and let the impressions come to me as they will.
