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).
DSH Perfumes create two distinct muguet compositions; one botanical and one ‘mixed media’ (distinctly madrigal mode!) Dawn has shared her lovely painterly visualizations with us; they illuminate my prose, more than I can…A multi blog project
The Museum of Art and Design in New York City announced an upcoming exhibition for November 2011. It is called “The Art of Scent 1889-2011”. The man who is choosing the fragrances on display is NY Times fragrance critic and author of The Emperor of Scent, Chandler Burr.
