Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has channeled the character, become the character, and put forth the character, captured as a perfume. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has created a Masterpiece with her perfume Mata Hari. Within Mata Hari we have echoes of ‘reference’ scents such as Mitsouko, L’Origan and L’Heure Bleue
Evan calls her perfumes Puja Fragrances, referencing the ancient Sanskrit word Puja which means “a ritual offering of auspicious items such as flowers, fruit, perfume and sacred ash. The winner is
As my first Sniffapalooza event drew near I felt like a young filly at the starting gate, raring to go start sniffing all kinds of brand new fragrances hot off the factory floor or out of the artisans perfume workshop. I did indeed fall in love not with one men’s fragrance but with several.
Evan Healy is a woman of simple, sophisticated taste. To be clear the fragrances offered here are not the complex blended perfumes of western culture which require the talent of a skilled Perfumer to build and construct, but the collected treasures of a traveler to India bringing her customers the wares of the Indian attar distillers, unadulterated, unblended, and undiluted.
Dabney Rose’s all natural perfumes are delicate and charming, always giving me a sense of the divine feminine, a gentle seduction with her softly blended flowers spices and resins. Leave a comment for this post and you are entered to win the fragrance of your choice – either a Leda Perfume Solid or a Windspeed Liquid perfume.
when the veil between the worlds
of the living and the dead
is thinnest
it is a time when we honor our ancestors
our beloved dead
and speak their names
into the smoke of burning leaves
