I think all artists like to look back at the past of their art form and find inspiration. Lately some of our finest indie perfumers have been doing that and creating modern vintage perfumes. Laurie Erickson of Sonoma Scent Studio steps up with her attempt to re-create a bygone past with a modern fragrance in Nostalgie.
I’m not one to care about the gender of my perfume. This is why I am such a big fan of the fragrance line from Odin New York. They seem to be creating their fragrances with a man as their target audience. This is why I was looking forward to trying the latest release 07 Tanoke.
There is that moment when a perfumer hits an inflection point and their creativity takes an exponential jump upward. In 2011, one perfumer I believe found herself on that upward trajectory is Charna Ethier of Providence Perfume Company. Thankfully she didn’t keep me waiting long as her first release of 2012, Hindu Honeysuckle, has been my companion for the last two days.
An ode is a poem or prose that sings the praises of someone or something. In the early years of the twenty first century Yves Rocher released four perfumes (and a few flankers) that were truly above and beyond the quality and style of most direct marketing companies and attempted to capture these four very intangible ideals.
Acclaimed writer Michelle Krell Kydd, who has a dear friend losing her sense of smell due to illness, requested that a scent be created that could be experienced by anosmics. Perfumer Kedra Hart of Opus Oils responded, out of love for her anosmic mother, with Eau Pear Tingle.
Calice Becker has been exploring oud through the Arabian Nights Collection for Kilian Henessy’s By Kilian perfume line. She has taken us from Pure Oud which is exactly as advertised, to Rose Oud which sets off the oud with a dewy rose, to last year’s oud accord or “oud without any oud” in Incense Oud. For the fourth exploration of oud Mme Becker has chosen amber as the dancing partner in Amber Oud.
