As I mentioned in my review of Mandy Aftel’s Aftelier Sepia it was the result of one of the more interesting internet projects hosted on NathanBranch.com and called “Letters To A Fellow Perfumer”. What was so compelling about this written intercourse was two talented independent perfumers talking openly about their path from concept to juice in a bottle. Laurie Erickson’s finished perfume is called Forest Walk.
Series 4 , A Divine Narrative is a collaboration between six artists and six perfumers. Each perfume is a fictional charachter imagined by the designers and explores the dynamic between designer and muse.
Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin opens with a symphony, an overused term that completely suits this occasion. There is forest, there is soap, there is comforting darkness and fizzy light all at once. I am taken to my grandmother’s powdery dressing table, to my mother’s fine wool sweater I nuzzled as a child, to my father’s cigar box. Chypre Palatin smells like none of these things exactly, but conjures all of these things in my mind.
The latest addition to the Christian Dior La Collection Couturier Parfumeur is called Grand Bal and it feels like the right accessory to add fragrant flow to a Dior ball gown.
Several months ago M. Marchal told us that the next Parfums MCDI would be an oriental chypre by Bertrand Duchaufour (who created their last fragrance La Belle Helene).
Mandy Aftel has been participating in an ongoing series called Letters To A Fellow Perfumer on NathanBranch.com. The latest interchange took place between Ms. Aftel and Laurie Erickson of Sonoma Scent Studio and lead to the creation of Sepia. Through those letters Ms. Aftel spoke of the choices she made to convey the sense of “elegant decay” she was trying to create.
