NEW Fragrance : Diptyque Vetyverio – “Luncheon on the Grass”

For Vetyverio M. Pescheux has chosen to use a blueprint that worked for another Diptyque fragrance, Tam Dao. Tam Dao is one of the most complex studies of a single note, sandalwood, as exists in perfumery. It works because, Daniele Moliere the nose, allowed sandalwood to create an axis around which the other notes would interact and allow for those interactions to illuminate and delineate the central note. In Vetyverio I experienced the same kind of development as M. Pescheux takes us on a journey through all that vetiver can be

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NEW FRAGRANCE: Parfums DelRae Coup de Foudre is a Coup de Grace

For their second collaboration Mme. Roth and M. Vasnier choose another well-known floral as their central accord and, as in Mythique, find a unique source to build their new fragrance Coup de Foudre around. The flower at the center of Coup de Foudre is rose and M. Vasnier goes right to the heart of French perfumery in Grasse and uses one of the two remaining fields of Rose de Mai (Rosa Centifolia) as the source. Through a new extraction process gave the Rose de Mai a “feel of sniffing a live rose on the vine they wanted to add a new vibrancy to a rose fragrance”.

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NEW FRAGRANCE: Eau de Yosh Parfums Six Degrees of Separation

Ms. Han has done an incredible job of reformulating her original six fragrant oils into something different and exciting and altogether beautiful. I think this shows a perfumer who really understands the architecture which underlies her fragrances and how to successfully alter it. Then again what else would I expect from a perfumer for whom the Chinese character for her name, Yosh, means fragrant. It is clear to me she has a deep connection to her fragrances

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