We cannot hear Mozart composing or see Rembrandt painting, but thanks to Osmothèque, glimmers of our perfume history are here for us to know and rejoice in
“Il faut, dans ce bas monde, aimer beaucoup de choses, Pour savoir, après tout, ce qu’on aime le mieux.” ~ poet Alfred de Musset to Victor Hugo (“It is necessary in this lowly world to love many things, in order, after all – to know what you love the most”), since high school, my modus vivendi. …
Lily of the valley, muguet des bois– is a difficult floral note to replicate faithfully. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of DSH Perfumes French Lily is a nod to vintage but with her own voice
If galbanum is in the room you generally know it is there. Draws from Vero Kern, Maria Candida Gentile, Tommi Sooni, Atelier Cologne, Lush Gorillaz, Robert Piguet, Etat Libre D’Orange, DSH Perfumes, Anya’s Garden and Tambela. Go Green or go home
Many people ask me why I always use the same perfumer; the perfumer is the artist that paints the picture and I am the one that gives the (creative) ideas. Aurelien Guichard’s passion for perfume: creating them and respecting olfactive fragrances while maintaining a desire to preserve them for history
Five years ago, I was told by a prominent perfumer that 75% of all fragrances are created by white, French men (I am fairly certain that our “perfumista” readers would recognize the faces of male perfumers more easily than their female colleagues (many of our readers would recognize his face).
