NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: En Voyage Lorelei and L’Hombre: The Name Game + Reader’s Choice Draw

April 20, 2012April 25, 2012

Shelley Waddington has gone into her fragrant paint box yet again, and created two new wonderful works of perfumed art. Two very plain samples arrived with descriptions and notes printed on cards with an email address for responding with possible names after sniffing the perfumes. Shelley notified me, after all submissions were entered, that she had chosen the names Lorelei (for the floral) and L’Hombre (for the masculine).

ÇaFleureBon Behind the Bottle with Carine Baudry: Nose of Le Palais des Thés + Sample Set Draw

April 18, 2012April 21, 2019

Heading in to last January’s Elements Showcase I was expecting to find fragrance in all the old familiar places; perfumes, candles, room fragrances, incense, and body products. The exhibit hall was full of all of those things but I found a product which allowed me to encounter fragrance in an unexpected way.

NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Bond No. 9 “I Love NY for Earth Day” and “I Love NY for Mothers” + Sample Set Draw

April 17, 2012April 17, 2012

The two most recent releases from Bond No. 9 center on NYC’s love of green along with its environmental “smarts” and its celebration of mothers and motherhood.

Leather for Ladies: A Study of the Naughtiest Note, in Honor of Bettie Page’s Birthday

April 16, 2012

Bettie Page, who would have been 89 on April 22nd, is an icon of sexuality whose look and legacy has inspired many a budding glamour girl and modern burlesque queen. An aroma that is a fitting accompaniment to lustful imagery is leather. Some might think that leather is a note reserved for masculine fragrances, but it can also be a dominant note in fragrances marketed to women.

CaFleureBon Celebrates National Library Week: Literary and Olfactory Spice Ships + Melange of Dune Draw

April 14, 2012

For National Library Week Mark Behnke examines the literary spice ships of Dune by Frank Herbert and the fragrant ones represented in Frapin Caravelle Epicee by Jeanne-Marie Faugier.

CaFleureBon Celebrates National Library Week: Literature, Fragrance and Reflection

April 13, 2012

Walk inside any library and if you stay long enough you will find a sanctuary that is comforting, quiet, and best of all accessible to anyone who enters. So I was excited to write a post celebrating National Library week and choose a favorite book or two that mentions perfume on its pages.