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
In the work of Rotterdam-based artist, Maki Ueda, I see efforts to make us re-conceive our relationship to the five senses.
For the first time, the Penhaligon’s has the honor of being the Official Fragrance of London Fashion Week (Spring/ Summer 2014), scenting Somerset House and the surrounding show tents with the refreshing scent of Quercus
Erotique was inspired by a time when perfume meant something different than it does now. Vintage erotic books and art sparked my obsession with fetishistic elements-Dita Von Teese
