I was reminded of my youthful travels with the new release from The Different Company called Aurore Nomade. I don’t know if M. Duchaufour has ever visited Grenada but Aurore Nomade is that mix of spice, rum, fruit, and flowers I remember.
The new Le Parfum Couture Denis Durand for M. Micallef is one of the very best fragrances M. Micallef has ever released. Mme Micallef and M. Durand are friends and admirers of each other’s creativity; that shared passion led to a particularly harmonious collaboration.
With the release in 2005 of Dior Homme the idea that “woods are for boys and florals are for girls” was broken with a floral fragrance marketed to men which featured a new masculine floral as its focal point.
I hold the strip under my nose and am greeted by lemon. As focused and concentrated a lemon as I have ever encountered. For their tenth fragrance, Acqua Decima, Eau D’italie presents their first citrus fragrance and it is as bright as the August sunshine in Positano.
The most recent perfumer to take on muguet is Jerome Epinette in the new fragrance for Byredo called Inflorescence. In a note he said, Inflorescence is “the interpretation of a muguet, greener, fresher and more stylized than the real one.”
The mixture of the artistic side, the business side, and the consumers really make Esxence unique as no matter which group you fall into you have the opportunity to learn and talk with the other two groups.
