When I saw Keiko Mecheri in the Spring for tea in NY, she mentioned she was working on six new fragrances; including a line of four summer citrus fragrances each evoking a personal journey reflecting her travels all over the world. WIN All four samples of La Collection Hesperidés. Leave a comment onsite about Les Parfums Keiko Mecheri
there’s a revolution in this bottle.
It’s in the fresh, restless bite of lemon,
sharpened and intensified by a defiant black pepper.
It’s in the unruly turbulence of a prune
and an in-your-face ambrette.
Electrified by aldehydes, you can feel the pure energy,
pared down and pumped up by leather, shot through
with heliotrope and brought back down to earth
by a raunchy patchouli.
This is a fragrance that is meant to celebrate all that makes a man successful and it is an unabashed masculine fragrance.Aventus keeps intact the recent string of successes from Creed and show that the House of Creed is far from their Waterloo.
The early contender for the longest perfume name of 2010 has to be the new fragrance from Heeley; Orange And Lemons Say The Bells of St. Clement’s. The name is based on a British nursery rhyme which names all of the great bells of Old London. Its last stanza is quite creepy. I assure you that the fragrance is anything but!
As a fan of many of the INDEX fragrances including Fresh Cannabis Rose (by nose Jerome Epinette), the discontinued Mukki, Patchouli Pure and Cannabis Santal, which were created when Fresh was an indepedent perfumery, I am ‘”praying” that his “love’ for fragrance and for wife Alina Rothberg, does justice to Elizabeth Gilbert’s inspiring book, and that Eat Pray Love doesn’t turn out to be an ‘Avatar’ or “Matrix” of perfumery
After two years of collaboration with Bertrand Duchaufour, the House has chosen perfumer, Karine Vinchon as the nose for an exploration of the many facets of vetiver
