As we entered the fall I heard a rumor that Czech and Speake was going to be adding their first new fragrance since 2003 and it was going to be a vetiver based fragrance. As we moved further into the fall some of the UK based members of the internet forums got a chance to try Vetiver Vert and the verdict was it was good and in some of those early tester’s words it was spectacular.
Neil sternberg brings you an episode of “Joey and Snake’s Virtual Truckstop of Fragrance Fashion” for their Christmas special, lost somewhere in the petabytes of YouTube…..this time it is three Micallef fragrances they are talking about.
Geza Schoen is one of our most cerebral perfumers. . It is why when I heard he was making a perfume for the 20th anniversary of the death of German actor Klaus Kinski I was elated. I had a feeling Hr. Schoen would not put out some assembly line celebuscent but would challenge me aesthetically and intellectually, which he does with his new fragrance Kinski.
Jessica September Buchanan‘s newest fragrant offspring is a 100 % botanical one.
Narcotic Flowers is her tender homage to the city of Grasse which is so thoroughly steeped in perfume history.
Like all other big cities, the actual smell of London is of course somewhat different to the postcard ‘strawberries and 5 o’clock tea’- one. It is also very different to the one evocative of the olfactory remembrance of the place, which I suppose will often tend towards a fair bit of nostalgia.
As we enter the last few days of 2011 I begin to look back over the year for trends and the things I learned while exploring the new fragrances. One of those things that fall in the latter category, for me, this year is how different an eau de parfum or extrait formulation can allow me to find something entirely new out of the same basic architecture as a lesser concentration. For some reason this year has seemed to prove this to me on a monthly basis. For these final days of 2011 I received two final lessons in what a parfum can do.
