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.
Hi, Shelley! It’s a pleasure doing a ‘behind the bottle’ with you, finally. I’ve enjoyed sampling your work, and your latest, botanical l’Emblem Rouge, I find particularly delightful! First, though, there are so many things I long to ask you, they buzz about in my head like a swarm of wayward bees.
Sharif is a unisex perfume of a sophisticated elegance that attracts attention to the person who wears it, like the radiant light of a person’s character attracts the attention of all those present Sharif means « noble man» in the Arabic language, not by lineage.
Mandy Aftel has chosen “high and bright” to describe her new fragrance, Haute Claire , a scent born of recent correspondence with fellow perfumer Liz Zorn, A fragrance named for the burnished steel sword [replete with crystal imbedded in its golden hilt] brandished by Paladin Olivier in the Chanson de Roland?
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