Atelier Cologne has created a special edition fragrance celebrating Galleries Lafayette’s Centennial named Sous le Toit de Paris and is signed by Perfumer Ralf Schwieger and will be available in the Atelier Cologne Boutiques in New York and Paris.
“This is not a needle, I am not going to poke you.” said Dawn Spencer Hurwitz putting on me the tiniest amount of her Special Formula X. This is how my smell and tell fragrance consultation started. A few minutes later the entire large counter of her Essence Studio was covered by bottles one of which was Cardamom and Khyphi.
Heading to the gala opening of The Art of Scent 1889-2012 I was nervous. Chandler Burr has been telling me everything that this exhibit was going to be but what if it wasn’t? As the elevator rose to the 4th floor of the museum I think I held my breath a bit as the doors opened.
It is not too often you find such elegance and beauty in a perfume bottle for around 70 US dollars.
Many lovers of vintage perfumes, like me, cringe at the word “reformulation”. It usually means cashing in on a legend and results in something pale and ghostly, compared to the original. In the case of Balmain Ivoire, it is not so much a ghost as it is a stunning and crisp homage that does justice to the original.
