Lovely, green DSH Perfumes Re-Assess encapsulates that time in childhood when a summer day could seem longer and more wonderful than a thousand birthdays. It was created as part of the Isolation/Meditation series that Award Winning Dawn Spencer Hurwitz started in 2020 as an artistic and personal response to the Covid pandemic.
All Amouage perfumes in the main collection contain boswellia frankincense, but Jubilation XXV Man, created by the inimitable Bertrand Duchaufour in 2008, was the first to make it the star. With what seems as many ingredients as Scheherazade had tales, Amouage Jubilation XXV Man is luxurious, complex, yet still quintessentially incense.
Thai perfumer Nutt Wesshasartat, who had been on Husen Baba’s radar for some time, was chosen for I Am Darkness because of his facility with white florals, including a key element of AZAMAN Perfumes I Am Darkness, frangipani flower, which is native to Thailand. I Am Darkness is a beautiful incense fragrance built, unconventionally, on a chypre structure.
Created in extrait concentration by Antoine Lie alongside founder and Author Barbara Herman, smouldering, spicy ERIS Parfums Scorpio Rising is one long, slow burn of incense, woods and leather that will have even the most balanced Libra or virtuous Virgo easing into venomous ways in no time.
Ex Nihilo Iris Porcelana, like that of the iris herself, is an intimate perfume. Rather than melding with the skin the way many clean musk-centric scents do, Iris Porcelana, like the iris herself, wears like a secret revealed only to those who come close. If you crave a bedtime fragrance to make you dream of spring, Iris Porcelana is waiting like a flower about to bloom.
Aether Arts Perfume Tea and Takhi, is Amber Jobin’s latest for 2022 a wonderfully original, horsey leather and black tea fragrance that draws on Mongolian culture and heritage
