Summer strode into California this year with the heat buzzing at around three digits daily. It’s dry, acrid and sometimes unbearable .My scents always come to the rescue. Although I am not in the habit of having winter- summer rotation fragrances I do find I am drawn to gauzier, less dense ones at the height of summer. This summer, three fragrances have my heart and I cannot get enough of them.
Whether they traveled to France by EuroRail or by airplane, our European friends are all involved deeply, passionately in perfumery and leave with us their scented Souvenirs de Paris. To be eligble for this draw please comment on your favorite L’Eau d’Italie perfume, or why you would like to win Au Lac
Let me have a fragrance that unleashes the skin’s freshness –
“I long to shed the indolic submersions of night and wake to a body overflowing with this Perfect Veil of newborn light.” After 5 years, and thousands of fragances late. Perfect Veil is still a top ‘skin scent pick” on luckyscent.com site; if you want to enter the draw, for a full size please leave a comment about your “perfect ‘ scent from Sara Horowitz Parfums Ps.marlene Goldsmith, Madonna, Jennifer Garner, Jennifer Morrison, Rachel Zoe are fans
In this interview with the Camille Goutal, Ms. Goutal’s daughter who has led the Company’s endeavors, including its famous fragrances (her “partner in perfume” is nose Isabelle Doyen), we have an insider’s view of the complex relationships between scent, memory, tradition and innovation, mother and daughters, as well as Camille Goutal’s personal memories of one of the most innovative and influential women of modern fragrance, her mother Annick Goutal
Place is distinct from space — it’s a terminus of locality, it’s where you are, what you are, and — in your consciousness — presence. Being present is paying attention. And scenting brings one to a feeling of sentience in the center of your experience — fragrance can be the strongest context of memory. Sisell Tolaas sprays her wrist liberally with what she calls Guy No. 3. “I wear it to parties,” she says. S&M Guy and Guy No. 3 were derived from the sweat of two of the nine men who were the subject of Tolaas’ 2006 exhibit the FEAR of Smell — the Smell of FEAR at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center.
We don’t cut and paste press releases. Its just not our style. If we get an official release from a fragrance company, it will always have our own spin. In todays’ Woman’s Wear Daily, six scented articlesappeared. Each one connects to me personally… through times in my life, former jobs, memories and scent.
And this quote by Betsey Johnson made my day…. and I hope it makes yours too…”There’s something important that should come along with a fragrance. A compliment.”
