From perfume collector to YouTube reviewer to serious perfumer, Kerosene (aka John Pegg) has created quite a stir in the fragrance world. Kerosene has graciously taken the time to let our readers learn a bit more about him, his background and his “process”.
It was not uncommon for couples to lay in newly plowed fields on Beltane who wanted to conceive. I have selected and briefly review seven perfumes that capture and bring to life these aspects.
I was fortunate to receive samples of both new By Kilian fragrances, Bamboo Harmony and Water Calligraphy, as was my fellow CaFleureBon editor John Reasinger. We have such different methods of expression in our perfume writing; we thought it would be fun to review these in tandem.
Shelley Waddington has gone into her fragrant paint box yet again, and created two new wonderful works of perfumed art. Two very plain samples arrived with descriptions and notes printed on cards with an email address for responding with possible names after sniffing the perfumes. Shelley notified me, after all submissions were entered, that she had chosen the names Lorelei (for the floral) and L’Hombre (for the masculine).
The two most recent releases from Bond No. 9 center on NYC’s love of green along with its environmental “smarts” and its celebration of mothers and motherhood.
Ever since I was a child, one of my favorite things has been the rain. Now that I am all “grown up” being caught in a brief shower is one of those things that take me back to my youth. There are several perfumes that have attempted to capture either the scent or the aura of rain in them. Here are five of them.
