Patricia de Nicolai grew up a Guerlain but took a different path & started her own perfumery in 1989. She is a pioneer, a leader and a woman who blazed scent trails for others. She is the President of The Osmotheque in Versailles. “Is perfume an Art or a skill? Definitely an Art. Everyone who creates a perfume IS artist.”
CaFleureBon Managing Editor Mark Behnke’s Top 25 New Perfumes of 2013 include Artisan, Niche, Mainstream and Natural Perfumes. Our draw is for one of the Top Five fragrances he chose as Best of Scent 2014
Editor in Chief Michelyn Camen and Managing Editor Mark Behnke weigh in on their picks for the Best and Worst Fragrances of 2013.
In Part 2, Douglas Bender continues our virtual tour of the FIT Exhibit. From the The Post War right wing reactionaries when after pre war tolerance. Fragrances began to be aggressively marketing by gender. 1969 brought the Stonewall riot. Part 2 concludes with onset of the AIDS crisis, the power of the t shirt as a billboard and a watershed time for the LBTGQ community
Over the course of these two years I created roughly 80 prototypes of Zahd in my attempts to fine tune the fragrance to the smoothest, most rounded and perfected version of itself. Only 125 bottles will be made and once they are sold out that is it.
Like all great art, great perfumes connect with our emotions without any force or effort. Fragrances are truly the most invisible of art forms except to the nose and our memories. -Neela Vermeire, Creative Director
