Curious about the scents For Strange Women line, I asked perfumer Jill McKeever to send me some samples. I received three from the Black Forest Solids line, consisting of Fireside Story, Nightshade Garden, and Black Forest Cake plus Winter Kitty.
The perfumer Juliet Stewart works with on her Juliet fragrances Lorenzo Dante Ferro enjoyed taking what is a modern floriental Eau de Parfum which is more floral than oriental and switching it up for the Juliet Extrait making it more oriental than floral.
Comme des Garcons 2 Man was my first lesson that the boundaries which framed a perfumer’s ingredient choices were truly unlimited because the truly innovative, like Mark Buxton, will find ways to make the unloved, lovely.
The latest release for the Les Exclusifs de Chanel line, 1932, is one of those fragrances which wash away the recent past in a sparkling shower of olfactory diamonds created by Jacques Polge.
KEROSENE Fragrances Unknown Pleasures contains nothing but delicious foodstuffs (and drinks) and creates one of the most interesting gourmand vanilla scents I have had the pleasure of sniffing in a long time.
