I got the chance to try two of the new London Blooms collection, Peony & Moss and White Lilac & Rhubarb. Both of these are very different intersections as Peony & Moss is a green synergy and White Lilac & Rhubarb is a crossroads of floral and vegetal.
She reached into her purse and brought out a lab sample and asked me if this was what I was talking about. From the moment she placed a dab on my skin, I kept sniffing it; and realized this was exactly what I meant. Cologne architecture using bold heady notes. That day back in April this fragrance didn’t have a name. Today it is the brand-new seventh Atelier Cologne release Ambre Nue by perfumer Ralf Schweiger.
Many natural perfumers make only EDP and perfume oil concentrations. Adam Gottschalk of Lord’s Jester has taken his scents and retooled many of them into varying strengths. These range from EDC to EDT and EDP, and also perfumed solids.Now, much to my delight, he has gone one step further and rendered two of his mythical perfumes, Daphen and Anthea, into Extrait strength.
Sarah Horowitz is known as the force behind Creative Scentualization, and now Sarah Horowitz Parfums. She has three perfume series, What Comes from Within, Perfumers Palette, and PERFECT. I was lucky enough to receive some of her latest creation for the PERFECT series: Coconut Milk. A wonderfully almondy, warm take on a classic beachy note, I wanted to know how this fragrance came about.
In 1992 perfume history was made. Perfumers Olivier Cresp and Yves de Chirin collaborated on and Parfums Mugler released what would become one of the best-selling perfumes in the world. A polarizing scent people (usually) either love or hate. We have a draw for the EDP
When I played twenty questions as a kid the first part of the game was to identify whether the object being described was Animal, Vegetable or Mineral. Gerald Ghislain has released a new three fragrance series under his Histoires de Parfums label called Edition Rare, Ambrarem, rosam, and Petroleum. In this game of fragrant twenty questions M Ghislain uses oud to interrogate three different compositions and come up with the appropriate answer.
