Roja Dove’s collection, is diverse, alive, often glamorous, often scandalous, but there is always a cohesiveness, a united field that connects it all. I decided to start by examining the sub-collection of three extraits: Gardenia, Neroli and Vetiver. Each of these potent creations highlights their eponymous accord, but there is undoubted complexity and nuance to each.
I think that American perfumers and West Coast, natural and niche perfumers are really innovative – they’re changing the game. They have thrown out the old rules, but at the same time, they’re going back to perfumery lore and creating scents from real flowers, wood, seeds, grasses and roots
The old proverb says “good things come to those who wait”. After three years of waiting three very good things have come to those who love Le Labo and great perfume and they are named Lys 41, Ylang 49, and Limette 37.
After My Own Heart encapsulates everything springtime and lilacs are to me: new fresh innocence, first love, endless possibilities and growing in a new direction after a cold and dark time. Thank you, Ineke Ruhland!!
I have a soft spot in my perfumed heart for Italian fragrances. Without being brusque, overbearing or obnoxious, Laboaratorio Olfattivo encapsulates that Italian aesthetic of both luxury and quality with sensibility and charm with both of the new fragrances, Noblige and Decou-Vert.
Ms. Rose gave us an exclusive inside view of what it is to create a “fragrance on paper”:
“My newest novel is about many things: Victor Hugo and the secret séances he attended, Druid ruins, grief, ghosts, reincarnation and the lengths we go to for love.-M.J.Rose, author of Seduction, A Novel of Suspense and The Book of Lost Fragrances
