Libertin Louison was born in Anvers, Belgium , to an Anversoise mother and a French father of Russian / Polish Jewish descent.Both parents’ backgrounds colored his perceptions and sensibilities, first in couture;now in all 7 perfumes coming to America. Our draw is for a reader’s choice flacon & a sample pack
One of my joys at last week’s NY elements Showcase, was meeting gracious Anne-Laure Marchal, Sales and Marketing Director for Caron and test Richard Fraysse’s 2011 launch of its first fruity floral urn scent, L’Accord Code 119.There is a mystery to the name. Could it be Alès Group, 119 Rue Salvador Allende?
The Big Easy has been the seat of worldly pleasures for a long, long time. We know that the founders of Bourbon French Perfumery think so. But their Vetivert is smokin’… in the very best of ways. It’s feels jazz-age hot, but it’s as cool as the blues.
When Anthropologie and Ineke Rűhland join forces, quality is a given. Anthropologie has shown itself to be innovative in the choices of fragrance which grace their artful boutiques- brick-and-mortar, and also on-line. Ineke has created four beautiful new fragrances- not a single “meh” among them.
I am particularly smitten by both Camellia and Paradise Lost.
They reveal themselves very differently, but there is no doubt in my mind that a great deal of care, consideration, and tenderness went into their conception.
Keiko’s goal was to transport us to two very different climes:
The Japan of the delicate, velvety camellia, and the Goa of our sun-drenched dreams.
Many existing lily fragrances depend on large quantities of Calone or other potentially screechy aromachemicals, in an attempt to express the limpid, watery quality of the lily.
Cartier’s Baiser Vole’ does not, and THAT is unique.
