Roja Dove’s collection, is diverse, alive, often glamorous, often scandalous, but there is always a cohesiveness, a united field that connects it all. I decided to start by examining the sub-collection of three extraits: Gardenia, Neroli and Vetiver. Each of these potent creations highlights their eponymous accord, but there is undoubted complexity and nuance to each.
The old proverb says “good things come to those who wait”. After three years of waiting three very good things have come to those who love Le Labo and great perfume and they are named Lys 41, Ylang 49, and Limette 37.
I have a soft spot in my perfumed heart for Italian fragrances. Without being brusque, overbearing or obnoxious, Laboaratorio Olfattivo encapsulates that Italian aesthetic of both luxury and quality with sensibility and charm with both of the new fragrances, Noblige and Decou-Vert.
When I learned that Shelley Waddington of EnVoyage Perfumes was creating a scent based on the life of Zelda Fitzgerald, the memory of my teen obsession came roaring back. I was anxious to try Zelda.
For the New Kingdom collection Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of DSH Perfumes was inspired by original Egyptian perfumes she had studied for the King Tut exhibit at the Denver Art Museum and wanted to revisit those and modernize them. The results are Iridum, Keni, Antiu, and Megaleion
Usually after Sniffapalooza it is a fragrance which resonates with me after the event. For the first time, after the recent Spring Fling, it isn’t a fragrance that has me excited about the future but a new initiative called The Fragrance Republic.
