Amouage Gold Man composed by Guy Robert in 1988 is a symphonic composition of what is said to be 140 ingredients. Gold Man’s intricate notes are arranged harmonically; dark and glinting notes interwoven like a tapestry. Marked by Robert’s characteristic light, deft touch, Gold Man is opulent but never heavy, rich but not overwhelming, and a masterclass in how to go big without going overboard.
Vintage Lentheric Shanghai is a crepe de chine fragrance; it has a silky, drapey quality that is reminiscent of the textile, and it is as easy and elegant to wear.
In Sarah Baker Perfumes Loudo, her newest creation, Baker tapped master perfumer Chris Maurice (a nom de nez of perfumer Christian Carbonnel) to fashion an oud-centric fragrance inspired by childhood play and, as Baker describes, “how it deeply shapes our ability to understand and use conceptual and abstract thinking.” With its unique marriage of elegant oud and quirky, gourmand undercurrent, Loudo is unexpectedly delicious.
In the 21 years since M. Frederic Malle showed the fragrance world how independent perfumery is done — hire the best, give complete artistic freedom to your perfumers, sign their names to each bottle and produce elegant, exceptionally high quality works housed in elegant, simple, eloquently branded bottles – Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle has remained a touchstone of creative perfumery. While the brand was sold to Estee Lauder in 2015, artistic control was, and is, maintained by M. Malle, and continues to produce some of the most gorgeous fragrances on the planet. Three of the best Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle are Le Parfum de Therese, En Passant and Dan Tes Bras
Montal So Iris Intense smells like watching a watercolour being painted. As the fragrance warms on the skin, it releases delicate carrot and lemon notes that fill in the flower’s aroma. It is quite lovely in these moments, a quintessential young iris soliflore with an undercurrent of flowery Oolong tea that stays with the fragrance into its dry-down.
Missouri native Shawn Maher celebrates the 1904 World’s Fair that his grandparents attended – the largest and most expensive ever dreamt up – with a new fragrance, Chatillon Lux 1904, that marries coffee and cardamom with woods, jasmine and some surprisingly bright fruit notes
