The question begs: what will they waft?
When Madame Michelyn murmurs “ I DO “ in front of the Divine and family, and forms the French Connection?
When Monsieur Didier –Le-Capable whispers “oui” devant le bon Dieu et tout le monde …hmmm?
Last week, it was my pleasure to converse with soft-spoken Elise Pearlstine, the natural perfumer behind Bellyflowers Botanical Perfumes. Elise thoughtfully sent me her latest creation, Wild Chypre- composed with many wild-harvested plant absolutes, a perfume which evolved on its own. I frankly am mad for it; it is unusual and beautiful in a singular manner.
Uncorked! Is a blogging event sponsored by the Natural Perfumers Guild celebrating voices telling us all their inner stories of how they came to love natural aromatics *or* why they love natural perfumery.
The Jouany Collection was originally scheduled to launch in July, but those of us who attended Sniffapalooza’s Spring Fling were privileged to sample the first two fragrant offerings: Marrakech and St. Barthélemy.
Charna Ethier of Providence Perfume Company has been a very busy lady lately.
Besides her own booming cottage industry, composing all-natural perfumes, body oils, and now, solid perfume balms -Charna was agonizing about releasing her new solid perfume
Would they be good enough? How was their longevity? Were the fragrances true? Worry worry worry. Charna needn’t have worried.
Earlier this year in NYC at Elements, I barely had the opportunity to thoroughly examine the soOud collection…
I was captivated by Stéphane Humbert- Lucas- that too-handsome rascal nose for both Nez à Nez and soOud.
Last weekend – during Sniffapalooza’s Spring Fling- I was able to devote more time to the lot…and I did.
Several fragrances caught my nose- but only one did I purchase and that one was Burqa.
