What can I write about Mandy Aftel and not repeat what I have written on Cafleurebon, Beauty News NYC and LA, Basenotes, Sniffapalooza Magazine, and Fragrantica? I have ,"gone behind the bottle ", tested and blogged) about nearly every one of her scents.

The winner is Francesca  who won  PARFUM PRIVE please email michelyn@cafleurebon.com by Oct 15  EST.

 

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 "Everything in nature is exquisite. Take the Dung Beetle, with its wonderful suit of armor. Perfectly proportioned and yet what does it eat? Feces. To some the prized Ambergris is no more than a whales vomit. There is balance amongst imperfection, there is humbleness and great beauty. The Lotus flower’s journey begins in dark muddy waters. It pushes through the slime towards the light and emerges radiantly exposing its petals and fragrance. The Japanese are wise. They understand the compassion in Nature. Prive as I perceive it has all these elements, The wildly creative, untamed beauty, ugliness, imperfection, kicking and screaming its way to the surface like the Lotus. Then all who see it emerge stand in wonder at its purity, agast at how it has become perfect"