My mom is not your typical mother. Despite her “gender bending” choices for occupations and style of dress, she has always been rather feminine, as you will read by her choices for fragrances.
I’m still on a fragrant cloud after another fabulous Sniffapalooza In New York City. As always Karen Adams and Karen Dubin created a program which had the participants experiencing fragrance in traditional and non-traditional ways. This was the sixteenth edition of Sniffapalooza and we jokingly referred to it as “Sweet Sixteen”.
The newest fragrance from Humiecki & Graef, Candour, is all about the human connection a caress brings and the perfume team called Les Christophs (Christoph Hornetz and Christophe Laudamiel) truly create a very good work.
From perfume collector to YouTube reviewer to serious perfumer, Kerosene (aka John Pegg) has created quite a stir in the fragrance world. Kerosene has graciously taken the time to let our readers learn a bit more about him, his background and his “process”.
Now we’re in 2012 and Mr. Buxton is giving the idea of a collection another attempt as he releases a five fragrance collection. He retains both Black Angel and Wood and Absinth and then adds three new ones: Devil in Disguise, Sexual Healing, and Sleeping With Ghosts. This time I was not disappointed as the artist I admired seems to have returned.
By now, you probaly have made up your mind about oud. When M. Kurkdjian is at his best is when his fragrances challenge you and MFK Oud pushes the envelope
