For over a thousand years the goods moving through this region of the world were traded in Djenne. M. Guillaume’s Djhenne captures the sense of the trading post in the Saharan sun as a variety of comestibles populate Djhenne the fragrance.
When Jan Ewoud Vos showed this illustration of Kees Van Dongen – a rich and lush bouquet of flowers – to Annie Buzantian, she instantly fell in love with it. The first word that came to her mind was ‘Opulence’
Perfumer John Pegg has proven (beyond a shadow of a doubt) that he is more than a flash in the fragrant pan. Each one of his creations is like a painting with a central figure that is brought to life and accented by what he chose to include in the background and the frame. His two newest scents Fields of Rubus and Wood Haven continue in this vein.
Andrea Maack is a multi-disciplinary artist from Reykjavik, Iceland. Coal is her sixth fragrance where she has combined her visual art with olfactory art. Coal is meant to capture “the smell and atmosphere of an artist’s studio when the artist is using black coal.”
One of the fragrances at the NY Elements Showcase that Managing Editor Mark Behnke thought was noteworthy was Bond No. 9 Manhattan. My first thought was since the Company is famous for creating fragrant homages to NYC neighborhoods I would be interested in how they would interpret the whole city.
One of my favorite discontinued fragrances is Absinthe by Slatkin & Co. by Christophe Laudamiel (given to me by Chandler Burr) before Harry and Laura Slatkin sold the company to Limited Brands in 2005. Nest debuts Amazon Lily, Passiflora and Midnight Fleur
