The Air is my space
It carries sounds and music; lights and colors; odors and perfumes
I am volatile like a scent
Life is a slipstream of perfume: it stays in our memories remembrances of precious meetings
Linari Acqua Santa is the fifth fragrance from Linari. Mark Buxton, Angelo Di Fume and Notte Bianca; and Egon Oelkers, Eleganza Luminosa and Vista Sul Mare; were the noses behind those initial creations. (I really enjoyed Mr. Buxton’s Notte Bianca; its mix of citrus, absinthe and herbs was wonderful on the skin). Maurice roucel created Acqua Santa.
I’ve probably written well over 500 reviews at this point in my perusal of perfumes and most of the time when I write about them I am able to turn a dispassionate critical eye towards them. Then there are the rare fragrances that hit me so deeply in a memory and do such a good …
An olfactive laboratory is where you imagine the mad scientists of perfumery performing alchemy; mixing potent concoctions of raw materials in beakers, dressed in white lab coats. Perhaps there is an explosion or two. In my mind’s eye I see frenetic perfumers, with gleaming eyes, adding a pinch of ambergris, a dollop of rose absolue, a soupcon of …
There is a saying that every sibling has a different 'mother'. Some are biological, some are not. Some are with us, some have departed this earth. Yet, most often the memories of our mothers can be evoked in a moment, by our most primeval sense…our sense of smell. Author Daphne Du Maurier wrote,"If only there could be an …
I am a lover of jazz and when you listen to jazz there are moments when you know you are hearing something different. One jazz pioneer who I admire is Dizzy Gillespie and when I started listening to his music there was a piece, when I heard it, that seemed to represent the turning …
