Le Labo Benjoin 19 was inspired by the first meeting between Anna Karenina and Count Vronsky in Moscow. It is full of passion and sensuality, destined to be a classic. Many of the Le Labo city exclusives are enticing, but I haven’t broken the must-have barrier. I must have a bottle of this.
For Black Mr. Vos was inspired by two distinct personalities one from the musical world and one from the movies, “ I included images of David Bowie and the actor Jeremy Irons in the visual brief for perfumer Antoine Lie.
When someone makes a fragrance which tickles my geek senses it causes me to throw good judgment away. The latest occurrence of this came with the new release from Erik Kormann called Steampunk.
Every perfume blogger loves “zombies”. No, not the brain dead reanimated corpses hungry for human flesh, stinking of gravedust and decay. In the blogosphere, zombies refer to posts that take on a life of their own long after they are written
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.
Six perfumers have come together today to wish Tama Blough a Happy Birthday: Brent Leonosio of Smellbent, Ineke Ruhland of Ineke, Jane Cate of A Wing and Prayer, Mandy Aftel of Aftelier, Shelley Waddington of Envoyage Perfumes and Yosh Han of YOSH. We are offering a selection of Tama’s favorites in a West Coast Indie Perfumer Birthday Bag SURPRISE
