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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Cartier’s Mathilde Laurent brilliant in-house perfumer and author of Les Heures, has woven a web both haunting and complex with her latest labor of love, and the soliflore subject is The Lily. Baiser Vole is the result of that process.Aujourd hui, C’est La jour de la fete nationale (Bastille Day)
Eau Eternelle is pure pleasure, and there isn’t a soul I know of who could pay me enough to dissemble.
I first ‘got whiff’ of it on an unseasonably warm, crazy busy Sunday afternoon at the Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2011.
