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
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)
