I am also inviting Cafleurebon readers, even those who do not know the smell of real Oud, to discover it and participate in this project, because the “Ultimate Oud Fragrance” should be a perfume that makes Oud a love story for all, not only for Oud lovers.
My first exposure to Adam’s unique style of 100% natural perfumery was last year, during Mystery of Musk, a web project sponsored by the Natural Perfumers Guild. This year, in the NPG’s Brave New Scents project, Adam once again wowed me with a new EDP, Hermes.
Behind the Bottle, although it started the same way in concept. At the recent Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2011 I had a chance to smell the parfum version of the modern reformulation of Houbigant Fougere Royale. I had named the Eau de Parfum version of Fougere Royale one of my top new fragrances of 2010
Hi, Shelley! It’s a pleasure doing a ‘behind the bottle’ with you, finally. I’ve enjoyed sampling your work, and your latest, botanical l’Emblem Rouge, I find particularly delightful! First, though, there are so many things I long to ask you, they buzz about in my head like a swarm of wayward bees.
One can only imagine the hippie jet set, with a nod to the extravagant lifestyle of the aristocratic adventuresses, end up on the shores on these beaches of paradise,surrounded by the picturesque city scape of Indo-multi-European influence, the hot air filled with the fragrant tuberose, jasmine, blossoming limette trees and patchouli
It has been a successful first half of 2011 for Joseph Quartana the mind behind Six Scents. Six Scents: Series Three just won the Fifi Award for “Best Indie Perfume”. I wanted to find out more of how Mr. Quartana goes about bringing together the artists involved in Six Scents and his answers take us Behind The Bottle
