FRAGRANCE REVIEW Molton Brown Navigations Through Scent
Guest Poster Judith Tabron of The Unseen Censer navigates us through the Molton Brown Navigations Through Scent line of fine fragrance.
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Sonoma Scent Studio “Forest Walk” -Yosemite Redux
As I mentioned in my review of Mandy Aftel’s Aftelier Sepia it was the result of one of the more interesting internet projects hosted on NathanBranch.com and called “Letters To A Fellow Perfumer”. What was so compelling about this written intercourse was two talented independent perfumers talking openly about their path from concept to juice in a bottle. Laurie Erickson’s finished perfume is called Forest Walk.
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin – Duchaufour Strikes Again, Straight to the Heart + Luckyscent Draw
Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin opens with a symphony, an overused term that completely suits this occasion. There is forest, there is soap, there is comforting darkness and fizzy light all at once. I am taken to my grandmother’s powdery dressing table, to my mother’s fine wool sweater I nuzzled as a child, to my father’s cigar box. Chypre Palatin smells like none of these things exactly, but conjures all of these things in my mind.
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW Christian Dior La Collection Couturier Parfumeur Grand Bal: Structure and Flow
The latest addition to the Christian Dior La Collection Couturier Parfumeur is called Grand Bal and it feels like the right accessory to add fragrant flow to a Dior ball gown.
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW Aftelier Sepia EDP: Elegant Decay + Ghost Town Draw
Mandy Aftel has been participating in an ongoing series called Letters To A Fellow Perfumer on NathanBranch.com. The latest interchange took place between Ms. Aftel and Laurie Erickson of Sonoma Scent Studio and lead to the creation of Sepia. Through those letters Ms. Aftel spoke of the choices she made to convey the sense of “elegant decay” she was trying to create.
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEWS Seven Surprising New Summer/Sport Scents
One of the things that usually irk me about most mass market designer scents is the inevitable wave of innumerable flankers and seasonal releases that follow. This summer, however, I was very pleased to find quite a few very well made ones. Sport and summer epithets do not necessarily mean bad…as you will see