Ineke Ruhland has a way of capturing flowers, with all their myriad wonders, in perfume form. After My Own Heart is the perfect title for this scent because, on my very first sniff, it was like Eros himself shot a golden shaft through my heart.
The word “noir”, attached to a perfume’s name, infers something dark or black and conjures images of the night and mystery. Roxana Villa has called out to the night and the Earth and merged them into Roxana Illuminated Perfume Figure 1: Noir.
Crabtree & Evelyn was one of the very first companies that caught my attention with their now discontinued Persian Lilac scent. Just as that scent captured the purest essence of the darkest lilac, Somerset Meadow captures an idyllic day spent leisurely roaming the wildflower covered meadows and soft green fields in the late springtime.
Though Mother Nature may be dragging her feet when it comes to bringing the green, perfumer John Pegg of House of Kerosene is right on time with the release of his ninth scent Pretty Machine.
Calice Becker has managed to bring to life the Chinese myth of “The Fountain and the Peach Blossom Spring” by swirling together the notes gently and creating something as intriguing as it is uncomplicated in the new By Kilian Asian Tales, Flower of Immortality.
Mark Twain said it best,”In the Spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather in four and twenty hours.” Our top ten spring fragrances with draws from Tommi Sooni, Serge Lutens, Ormonde Jayne, Penhaligon’s & Etat Libre D’Orange
