Owner Tamas Tagscherer wanted to bring back the Old Berlin but mix it with the New Berlin and create modern fragrances with vintage roots. Mme Nyberg has done a very skillful job of melding vintage and modern aesthetics for JF Schwarzlose
Cardamom is the Queen of Spices and has grown lavishly under the tropical canopy on hillsides in the Ghat Mountains on the Malabar Coast of southern India to be harvested by hand and shipped around the world
Many perfumes bring images alive in our mind’s eye. When I sniff The Maj I see visions of exotic women clad in radiant colors and painted with henna
I have seen the list of notes of Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier’s Secrete Datura, but to me, this is not a perfume to dissect. Perfumer Jean Laporte blended it too skillfully; to take it apart would be like cutting slices in the Mona Lisa to see the depth of the paint
Cocoa Sandalwood shows that all of Laurie Erickson’s skills as a perfumer are as strong as Ms. Barbra Streisand’s vocals…..”like buttah”
Once upon a time the husband and wife team of Zoran and Elena Knezhevich, founders of Fragrantica.com, wanted to make a perfume which reminded them of their family’s travels from Eastern Europe to the US.
