NEW FRAGRANCE: Olfactive Studio Autoportrait, Still Life, and Chambre Noire: “Photos in Perfumery” + Reader’s Choice Draw

Celine Verleure brought together three perfumers and three photographers along with an Internet community to create the three fragrances in the Olfactive Studio’s portfolio;.despite my skepticism about a process that had so much input it seems like in the end three very good fragrances were produced and I have enjoyed wearing all three of them

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Les Parfums Keiko Mecheri New Fragance: Camellia and Paradise Lost + Soliflore Draw

I am particularly smitten by both Camellia and Paradise Lost.
They reveal themselves very differently, but there is no doubt in my mind that a great deal of care, consideration, and tenderness went into their conception.
Keiko’s goal was to transport us to two very different climes:
The Japan of the delicate, velvety camellia, and the Goa of our sun-drenched dreams.

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