Your task to claim these incredible 12 perfumes was to guess four fragrance reviews that made our top ten most read perfume articles of 2012 (hints were in Best and Worst of Perfumes for 2012) in the exact order of most read.
Not one reader guessed correctly.
It’s kind of a blur what came first, wanting to write about By Kilian Sweet Redemption, or my interest in Angel Falls aka Churún-Vená in Venezuela – for these two worlds continue to collide and settle in my mind’s eye.
The Diary of A Nose -A Year in the Life of a Parfumeur is the journal of a year (October 19, 2009- October 13, 2010) in the life of one of Modern Perfumery’s Maestros -Jean-Claude Ellena
Cardamom is known as the Queen of Spices …Why? Perhaps it associated with Queens. Cleopatra burned cardamon incense whenever Mark Antony visited. Its been used in perfumery for thousands of years for its sexual powers.
Was that a periodic table of elements perfume? I was intrigued and so I sent off to the company, nu_be, to get more information. These were not fragrances to be dismissed as perfumers Antoine Lie, Francoise Caron, Sylvie Fischer, and Nicolas Bonneville were the perfumers behind Hydrogen, Helium, Lithium, Oxygen, and Carbon.
When I first talked with perfumer and founder of HOUSE OF MATRIARCH Christi Meshell. We knew immediately we were kindred souls and, as we talked on, I mentioned my love of majmua attar. This lead to the creation of her new ultra-natural The Maj.
