My favorite sensorial aspect of the holidays is no different as my touchstone scent is gingerbread. I thought I’d build a fragrant Gingerbread House of my favorite five fragrances, four walls and a roof Our draw is from a secret santa.
It seems every holiday season I am somehow compelled to edit “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”, by Clement Clarke Moore, into something amusing, I hope. For 2011 I am imagining a fine smelling house crammed full of Natural Perfumers on Christmas Eve. The Christmas tree above is our own Editor Tama Blough’s complete with natural goodies and soy milk for Scent-a Claus.
Alexandra Balahoutis is one of the most talented natural perfumers because she is uncompromising in using natural ingredients to realize her vision. Early in the year Ms. Balahoutis released a very limited edition named Dimanche.
Neil sternberg brings you an episode of “Joey and Snake’s Virtual Truckstop of Fragrance Fashion” for their Christmas special, lost somewhere in the petabytes of YouTube…..this time it is three Micallef fragrances they are talking about.
Geza Schoen is one of our most cerebral perfumers. . It is why when I heard he was making a perfume for the 20th anniversary of the death of German actor Klaus Kinski I was elated. I had a feeling Hr. Schoen would not put out some assembly line celebuscent but would challenge me aesthetically and intellectually, which he does with his new fragrance Kinski.
Jessica September Buchanan‘s newest fragrant offspring is a 100 % botanical one.
Narcotic Flowers is her tender homage to the city of Grasse which is so thoroughly steeped in perfume history.
