Hemingway would blaze a path through almost all of the historical turning points of the first half of the Twentieth Century and for M. Ghislain to capture a life so fully lived, in a fragrance, was going to be a challenge.
Romano Ricci, whose Juliette Has A Gun Brand chronicles the many incarnations of his muse, his Juliette, will be launching a new fragrance Oil Fiction an Oriental Chypre
Perfumes are like songs. Some blast out at operatic volume. Il Profumi di Firenze’s Florentia 16 Fiori Dolci is a lullaby and tells its story through intimacy, not volume
The 11th fragrance in Pierre Guillaume’s Huitième Art Parfums line is named Monsieur and is inspired by the “Bois Noirs”, where torrents and waterfalls from Auvergne’s mountains carry along scents of moss, bark, wood, earth, humus and stone
This happens every year. I get to mid-August and I realize I can’t write about all of the fragrances I think are worth writing about. As a compromise here are ten new fragrances that I like quite a bit that just never made it to the top of the priority list.
I find my greatest joys as a perfumer lie in “Fusion Perfumery”—blending modern Western expectation with Eastern, Arabic, and Historical perfumery. Above all—I enjoy telling a good story! -JK DeLapp
