The first thing Incense Oud brought to the party was a different date, perfumer Sidonie Lancesseur. My very favorite By Kilian fragrance is Cruel Intentions. By creating an illusion of oud she has shown me something new and with the panoply of oud fragrances on the market that makes this special. Enter our sample draw
It was always my hope that Mark Birley would take another shot at making a men’s fragrance which would exude the private club kind of elegance where dinner jackets were required of the men. With Mark Birley’s death in 2007 I thought the opportunity had passed with the inspiration. Then late in 2010 Mark Birley For Men Charles Street was released.
The scents from Agonist are supposed to be inspired by the “Nordic climate and culture with its melancholy”. Would Liquid Crystal and Perfumer Fabrice Pellegrin (le nez for Diptyque Eau Duelle) be the fragrance that pulled off Agonist’s stated design credo? Enter our draw for a sample
1997 was the year that Patricia de Nicolai [granddaughter of Pierre Guerlain] created Vanille Tonka; at that time, it was an anomaly.
Today, it holds its own, as so many other noses and houses have sought to author incenses in abundance.
In 2006 online niche fragrance retailer Luckyscent debuted a five fragrance series of perfumes called Untitled which consisted of a simple brief,
“create something unusual, something that goes beyond their normal boundaries”
Susanne Lang, Hilde Soliani and Brent Leonesio were great choices to live up to that simple brief to create beyond their normal boundaries.
When I first smelt Après L’Ondée (just the EDT in case anyone is wondering), it struck me as a dark, mournful, conflicted scent. This got me wondering who would have worn Après L’Ondée at the turn of the 20th century, when it was launched. My mind instantly lit upon Virginia Woolf, who would have been 129 this week.
