One of the things I like about the majority of niche perfume lines is that they don’t designate a gender to their fragrances. They understand that by marketing a scent strictly to men, or women, they are decreasing their potential audience for that fragrance. Fortunately, most perfumistas will try everything no matter what, but there …
Christopher Brosius hates bugs. Particularly mosquitoes. So this perfume began in 1992 as a bug repellant when he lived in the country. "I knew from my research that one of the principal reasons plants produce their essential oils is to protect themselves from insects and I discovered several essential oils that were particularly effective to protect …
Natural perfumer Jane Cate, of A Wing & A Prayer Perfumes, was at a loss to name a new osmanthus perfume she had created. CaFleureBon Editor-in-Chief Michelyn Camen told her the legend of the moon goddess and suggested that she name it after Chang’e.
In the final creation that expresses the end of the first cycle of the Amouage narrative, “Fate” for Man and Woman explores the uncertainty of the future and the universal principal by which the order of things is inescapably prescribed. In his latest conquest, Amouage Creative Director Christopher Chong proclaims a finale that parodies the …
N°5 inaugurated the language of numbers in perfumes. It is also the number of perfection. And Gabrielle Chanel made it her favorite number. Noted Historian, Author and perfumer Elisabeth de Feydeau is our honored guest writer.
It was one afternoon on Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, that the idea of Aqua Vitae came to Francis Kurkdjian. Riding an old motorbike, taking it slowly in view of the extreme heat, the air on his face was deliciously cool. The sun intensified the fragrances of the nature around him. Aqua Vitae was inspired …
