Mona di Orio’s Les Nombres D’Or are meant to highlight the highest quality materials and the previous entries have done an excellent job of setting the titular ingredient off like a diamond solitaire. For the latest two Mme di Orio has chosen two of the most ubiquitous notes in perfumery, vetiver and vanilla, for the same treatment.
Pierre Guillaume’s inspiration for the 25th Parfumerie Generale perfume, due to be released in September, is a pair of sepia photographs from 1920 Indochine which depict a cruise on the Mekong River. As I have been wearing Indochine over that last few days it felt like a fragrance which has its own unique patina. M Guillaume chose ingredients from throughout the region as his notes for Indochine.
I am a fan of James Heeley of Heeley Perfumes as he has made a number of singular fragrances which I think are pretty good. His latest fragrance Hippie Rose has the ability to take me back to the Summer of Love in Provincetown. Mr. Heeley has created a patchouli rose fragrance that is surrounded by two different kind of musk which gives it a sun-warmed skin accord underneath the patchouli and rose.
Yuzu Man is the first citrus fragrance of the masculine Carons and in-house perfumer Richard . M Fraysse uses the yuzu as an exotic focal point which holds its own in the construction of Yuzu Man.
Francesca Brice and Kate JasonSmith of Pacific Perfumes flew into NYC from, New Zealand and won the International Green Packaging Award at the HBA Global Expo. But inside the packaging are solid natural perfumes we love
Here I sit, willing and foaming at the mouth to share my delight in the newest fragrant release from a very old Firenze brand: Fiore di Riso
Farmacia SS. Annunziata dal 1561 has been said to have been housed in St. Nicholas’ Benedictine monastery for years and years, for Heaven’s sake.
So, why should you want to smell Fiore Di Riso?
It is a glorious bridge between classic and contemporary, that’s why.
