The Different Company has been, until now, identified with only one perfumer Celine Ellena. Mme Ellena has created a sort of brand identity for The Different Company fragrance in her creations. A large part of my interest in this first fragrance by Bertrand Duchaufour, for The Different Company, Oud Shamash is to see whether it would fit into what has come previously.
As I post , the leaves have already changed colors and its raining. It feels like winter not Fall, the temperature is 34 degrees. Thank you to Mona Di Orio , Fragranceandart.com and Ineke Perfumes for our Autumn draw
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As promised, we resume our Sephora Sensorium expedition from Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2011.
Royal Service is the new fragrance created by Olivier Creed who as a sixth-generation master perfumer is the living embodiment of Creed. M Creed chose to have his service look back to the royalty and First Ladies who have worn their own signature Creed fragrances. If that was all M Creed did Royal Service would have felt like a Creed Greatest Hits. At each phase of development while there are notes which remind you of previous Creed fragrances M Creed uses a new note to twist them in a slightly different way.
This year, Team Karen [Karen Adams and Karen Dubin] decided to shake things up a bit.
Their planned ‘downtown day’- always on a Sunday [a Sunday, a Sunday] was enlivened by several new events which included a foray to the brand-new innovative multi-sensory interactive exhibit : The Sephora Sensorium, an ambitious collaboration with Firmenich.
Many perfume houses are reflections of their city of origin. Annick Goutal is one who w proudly shows off its Parisian influences with every release.The last Annick Goutal fragrance that grabbed me was Ninfeo Mio…now there is Mon Petit Cheri
