This past summer, Maria Candida Gentile took her scent work outside of the perfume bottle and into the spaces of contemporary art when she collaborated with artist Luca Vitone at the Venice Biennale.
There are two new elements to add to the Perfume Periodic Table produced by nu_be Perfumes, Mercury and Sulphur. Perfumer Antoine Lie shows he is also an alchemist.
None of the early autumn perfumes from Bond No. 9 are named for NYC neighborhoods, but all three; Scent of Peace for Him, New York Patchouli, and I Love NY for the Holidays exude quality and a New York state of mind.
The new collection from Rouge Bunny Rouge is called Provenance Tales and the three new entries, Cynefin, Embers, and Silvan are very good; better than one might expect from is primarily a cosmetics brand.
When someone makes a fragrance which tickles my geek senses it causes me to throw good judgment away. The latest occurrence of this came with the new release from Erik Kormann called Steampunk.
Over the course of these two years I created roughly 80 prototypes of Zahd in my attempts to fine tune the fragrance to the smoothest, most rounded and perfected version of itself. Only 125 bottles will be made and once they are sold out that is it.
