Ms. Ruhland told me in January I would be seeing a new release for “H”. Then she leaned towards me and told me that the next Ineke Perfumer fragrance would be called Hothouse Flower and it would be a gardenia soliflore.
For over a thousand years the goods moving through this region of the world were traded in Djenne. M. Guillaume’s Djhenne captures the sense of the trading post in the Saharan sun as a variety of comestibles populate Djhenne the fragrance.
Perfumer John Pegg has proven (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that he is more than a flash in the fragrant pan. Each one of his creations is like a painting with a central figure that is brought to life and accented by what he chose to include in the background and the frame. His two newest scents Fields of Rubus and Wood Haven continue in this vein.
The elizabethW line of perfumes is the brainchild of former architect-turned-perfumer Albert Nichols. He named the perfumery after his great-grandmother, who founded a ranch in the Sierra Nevadas. The aromas of the countryside created a love of fragrance; a passion Mr. Nichols was able to bring to life with elizabethW.
Andrea Maack is a multi-disciplinary artist from Reykjavik, Iceland. Coal is her sixth fragrance where she has combined her visual art with olfactory art. Coal is meant to capture “the smell and atmosphere of an artist’s studio when the artist is using black coal.”
Detaille offers a wide range of fragrances in both Eau de Toilette and classic cologne concentrations. I was fortunate to experience many of the EDTs which comprise the full collection of five feminine fragrances and five masculines.
