EIC Michelyn Camen sent perfumer Neil Morris a photo of an Oscar De La Renta model “whose face cannot be seen, but whose presence cannot be ignored,” she mused. A shutter-snap can halt time. This classic image silently speaks of ageless elegance and dignity without decay. This image would serve as the inspiration for Neil Morris Fragrances Vision in White.
DSH Perfumes Matsu, which means pine tree in Japanese, is the newest release by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz and it is that titular note which seems very present until you find out there isn’t any pine in the note list.
In this current evolution of the eau de cologne currently going on Hermes Eau de Mandarine Ambree and Eau de Narcisse Bleu show different ways to re-interpret a classic olfactory architecture without getting all Bauhaus with it.
Anytime I hear about a new American line of perfumes, I get excited. Great American Scents hails from the heartland of the US and has created fragrances: Tomato Leaf, Beet Root, Victory Garden, Orchard Blossom, Sweet Magnolia, Sunshine Grove, and Flowering Herbs to capture the rich and fertile scents of all things growing and green.
The term smells and bells is shorthand for liturgical ritual. Ms. Cainer’s work for Smells & Bells Organics is rooted in spirituality, and the fragrances of the Sufi Poet series; Happy Virus, This Sky, and Some Angels Grumble have a grounding, uplifting nature.
This time, David Seth Moltz of DS & Durga leaves the vast plains of the American Heartland and takes us to the medieval landscape of early Northern European cultures with a trio of new perfumes inspired by the Celtic, Norse, Orcadian, Scotti, Celtic, Pict, Manx, and Angle. With the distant drone of a great Irish warpipe, we present HYLNDS Isle Ryder, Bitter Rose Broken Spear; and Pale Grey Mountain, Small Black Lake.
