Aftelier Perfumes Joie de Vert is akin to being lured into the forest initially by the song of the woodthrush, only to discover that it has flown and now you are being serenaded by the owl as daylight retires.
With Euan McCall’s newest perfumes, Jorum Studio Elegy and Pentimento, one feels a wistful nostalgia which saturates them each with a luxurious neo-classicism bordering on tender melancholy. They couldn’t be more different from one another – which constitutes part of their charm.
In concert, the plethora of materials in Maher Olfactive Sagan Dalya sing seamlessly – like an ensemble in which the singers stagger their breath to create a lyrical line which appears endless. It’s a marvelous form of infinity, though: chalorous and cool, comforting and contemplative. The hearth may be warm, but you can hear the wind whistle through the forest as a few memorable draughts slither through the cracks in the windowsill.
Perfumer Linda Sivrican provides beauty with a mission: proceeds from Fiele Fragrances A Flower For You will benefit The Ron Finley Project, an ongoing campaign which empowers inner city Los Angeles inhabitants to cultivate their own food as a means of encouraging an accessible, better-quality diet and overall health and well-being. Ron Finley is known as The Gangsta Gardener and is both local hero and muse
In their newly-released The Perfume Companion: The Definitive Guide to Choosing Your Next Scent ,co-authors Sarah McCartney and Samantha Scriven have reviewed nearly 500 fragrances from a perspective based upon perfume fact, cost, and a singular lack of bias: if there is a particular fragrance which is inexpensive and marvelous, it’s included as well.
Liis Bo by Jerome Epinette is undemandingly beguiling; it doesn’t make you jump through hoops, challenge your nose, or attempt to impress you – because it doesn’t have to. That’s the point, in fact. In its own quiet way, Bo travels with you like a forest within which reveals itself upon the flesh, murmuring dulcetly to anyone who is willing to listen
