Today’s gray skies turned sunny while wearing Soleil Liquide. When I emerged street level, I arrived at a different kind of open-air courtyard, namely Rockefeller Plaza. I was transported to Andalusia. Spain and to the streets of Seville.
It has become a tradition here at CaFleureBon to have a Hanukkah post and this year Brent Leonesio of Smell Bent has a new Holiday Perfume Lady Dreidel. We also sing Adam Sandler’s Chanukah…Hanukkah song and say Hey you forgot Lenny Kravitz
Rima XI is the new Carner Barcelona release and its name is taken from the Spanish poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer of the same name. I was especially intrigued by a perfume which might capture “an impossible vain ghost of mist and light”.
Christopher Brosius is one artist who constantly pushes the envelope. When my sample of CB I Hate Perfume Invisible Monster arrived, I had no idea what to “osmagine”. What greeted my nose was something I had never smelled before, in a perfume…but it did resonate with me on a mnemonic and nostalgic level.
Take my hand, and join me in a perfumed adventure down the rabbit hole to Never-Never Land, brought to you by a new collection by Gérald Ghislain and Magali Sénéquier. It’s time to have fun and recreate the joys of childhood with the Alice & Peter collection of perfumes which include Showy Toffee, Fancy Choco, Wicked Berry, and Bloody Orange.
Sylvie Ganter said to me “We are making a special edition Atelier Cologne for the one hundredth anniversary of the Paris department store Galleries Lafayette called Sous le Toit de Paris.” She said the perfumer was Ralf Schwieger and then she swung the hammer, “It is a violet cologne absolue.”
