For the New Kingdom collection Dawn Spencer Hurwitz of DSH Perfumes was inspired by original Egyptian perfumes she had studied for the King Tut exhibit at the Denver Art Museum and wanted to revisit those and modernize them. The results are Iridum, Keni, Antiu, and Megaleion
Zelda Fitzgerald was a complicated woman, so creating a fragrance that captured her essence posed many creative challenges
Usually after Sniffapalooza it is a fragrance which resonates with me after the event. For the first time, after the recent Spring Fling, it isn’t a fragrance that has me excited about the future but a new initiative called The Fragrance Republic.
As a natural, artisanal perfumer, I work with the materials and methods that perfumers thousands of years ago used to create their scents, and I am completely inspired by their legacy of sensuality, luxury and their sense of wonder in all the natural world had to offer.
Figure 1: Noir captures the feeling of olfactory black and darkest night. As your eyes grow accustomed to the shadows of your surroundings you can perceive shape and form
