There is a certain belief among many that any attempt to create a flanker of a legendary perfume like Shalimar is a crime against perfumery. Thierry Wasser, the current in-house perfumer at Guerlain, was approached by his young niece to create a Shalimar for her. The result of that conversation is the new release Shalimar Parfum Initial.
It is always an interesting process to see a haute couture design aesthetic rendered as a fragrance. What will the perfumer and designer come up with to represent the fashion in a fragrant way? Working with Evelyn El Koubi to create her first two signature fragrances Marie Saint-Pierre chose to break her strong but feminine aesthetic in half. B is a strong spicy unisex fragrance and C is a floral enticing feminine fragrance.
Odin New York has launched their fifth fragrance but are calling it Odin 06 Amanu. While there is no explanation for why they are skipping 05 one hopes it isn’t because Chanel beat them to it. The first four Odin fragrances were very good with Odin 04 Petrana being a truly spectacular piece of perfumery.
“Why I smell “is more than a love paean to our primordial brain-
It is the very fabric of my life, and has given me the ability to render strange gifts into utilitarian, life-saving, even exquisitely pleasurable moments.
We don’t get to choose our gifts in life- no matter how paltry or odd they may be.
I don’t think I smelled because I wanted to, at first; I think I had to.
It has been a successful first half of 2011 for Joseph Quartana the mind behind Six Scents. Six Scents: Series Three just won the Fifi Award for “Best Indie Perfume”. I wanted to find out more of how Mr. Quartana goes about bringing together the artists involved in Six Scents and his answers take us Behind The Bottle
Perfumer Daniela Andrier was the nose behind Maison Martin Margiela Untitled and has been the nose behind the most Prada perfumes. For Untitled Mme Andrier combines both intensity and sheerness of around galbanum evoking a veil of green.
