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
Imagine what Harrod’s smells like at 2AM. From that simple idea from Joe Garces, perfumer Aurelien Guichard has created Knightsbridge the best of the new Robert Piguet Parfums fragrances that have been released to date and my favorite fragrance of the first half of 2013.
For her fifth perfume, Mme Anais Biguine interprets the hero/heroine of Virginia Woolf’s 1928 historical masterpiece Orlando, (also a semi bigraphical novel based in part on the life of Woolf’s lover Vita Sackville West)
In its first tribute to the Queen of flowers, the rose, Robert Piguet announces Rose Perfection, a new perfume created by Aurelien Guichard.
Ineke Ruhland has a way of capturing flowers, with all their myriad wonders, in perfume form. After My Own Heart is the perfect title for this scent because, on my very first sniff, it was like Eros himself shot a golden shaft through my heart.
