If you’re a music fan you are well aware of the phenomenon of “finding” lost recordings of musicians. While this is common in the music business we now have an example in the perfume business as A Lab On Fire releases Sweet Dreams 2003. The artist having his “lost” fragrance unearthed is Thierry Wasser.
It was not uncommon for couples to lay in newly plowed fields on Beltane who wanted to conceive. I have selected and briefly review seven perfumes that capture and bring to life these aspects.
When I first read that Dita Von Teese was launching a perfume, I was thrilled. This was a celebrity scent I could get behind. The material I read enforced my desire to try the scent, because she refused to produce a standard vanillic fruity-floral.
Like the first three Olfactive Studio fragrances before it, Lumiere Blanche, begins with a photograph. Celine Verleure in collaboration with photographer Massimo Vitali and Perfumer Sidonie Lancesseur mesmerizes me.
In 2009 L’Artisan Parfumeur released an Aedes de Venustas fragrance created by Bertrand Duchaufour. Now in 2012 we have another new perfume with the name Aedes de Venustas on the flacon and while L’Artisan is no longer involved; M. Duchaufour is again the perfumer.
Marina Sersale and Sebastian Alvarez-Murena the founders of Eau D’Italie must also share my love of boating culture because it shows in their latest release Un Bateau Pour Capri (A Boat to Capri). They tapped Jacques Cavallier of Firmenich to bring this brief to life.
