What does a mother’s love smell like to Roja Dove, Sergio Momo, Kerosene, Brent Leonosio, Ineke, Victoria Jent of EauMG, JoAnne Bassett, Laurie Erickson, Josh Meyer and Tanja Bochnig of April Aromatics. Unter Der Linten Perfume of Mother’s Day 2013 draw
Managing editor Mark Behnke plays his version of Jeopardy! as he wraps up Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2013
The word “noir”, attached to a perfume’s name, infers something dark or black and conjures images of the night and mystery. Roxana Villa has called out to the night and the Earth and merged them into Roxana Illuminated Perfume Figure 1: Noir.
Ellen Covey of Olympic Orchids became intrigued with the idea of making a chocolate-based scent for the most recent San Francisco and Seattle Artisan Fragrance Salon, and set it as a challenge for herself. The results are California Chocolate and Seattle Chocolate.
An example of a visual title is “The Rose With The Broken Neck”. Just the title conjures up myriad artistic possibilities to bring it to life. Some believe only synthetic perfume is olfactory art .I wish I could make those naysayers sit down in front of The Rose With The Broken Neck, and others of Ms. Balahoutis’ fragrances, and challenge them
Of the first fragrances from Le Labo the one that was the most interesting did in fact have the named note front and center but the other ingredients definitely were there to keep it off balance. This fragrance is Rose 31 by perfumer Daphne Bugey.
