Best Fragrances of 2019 (Gail Gross and Lauryn Beer) + Part 4 Draw
As we announce the best fragrances of 2019 we continue to see a pattern emerging: independent perfumery is the real winner this year.
Arquiste Misfit Review (Rodrigo Flores-Roux and Carlos Huber) 2019 “Celebrating 10 Years”
Arqusite Misfit celebrates patchouli in all its loamy, damp woods, musky glory, “making the undesirable desirable again.”
Eris Parfums Mxxx Review (Antoine Lie) 2019 + Genderfluidity Draw
Eris Parfums Mxxx is dislocatingly stunning; familiar and strange at once.It’s rare to smell something you think you may have dreamed. But I have now.
Anatole Lebreton Perfumista Review (Anatole Lebreton) 2019 + Challenging Conventions Draw
Audrey Hepburn keeps perfume in her Mailbox in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, 1961 What defines a perfumista? A lover of scent and its intricate connection to memory and emotion? Someone who craves the beauty, sensuality, even brutality, of fragrance? Who seeks out olfactory pleasures and aromatic oddities with the obsessive zeal of a treasure hunter? …
Bogue Profumo I Love YY Review (Antonio Gardoni for Scent Bar NYC) + Welcome to the Big Apple Draw
Bogue Profumo I Love YY created by Antonio Gardoni for Scent Bar NYC is the Met Gala of Ylang-ylang and one of the best perfumes of 2019
Jacques Fath Parfums Fath’s Essentials Le Loden Review (Luca Maffei) 2018 + Outlander Draw
Luca Maffei’s splendid olfactory interpretation of the textile in Fath’s Essentials Le Loden is densely green, complex, earthy, mossy, a touch witchy.