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.
Brie and Laurie Erickson have teamed up for a lovely giveaway of deluxe 1m samples of all five Sonoma Scent Studio fragrances, beautifully packaged by hand on a special card and a sachet of scented tea
One day I gravitated toward a pretty bottle with a frosted bas-relief figure of a long-haired woman with lots of flowing drapery all over the bottle. The name, Maitre Parfumeur et Gantier Secrete Datura, was also intriguing.
