It’s a unique and exciting time to be an American perfumer. Thanks to aromatherapy pioneers, small perfumers like me have access to knowledge and raw materials that didn’t exist a decade ago.
I believe the Atleier Cologne collection are a sort of light and dark, yin and yang kind of collection. For Rose Anonyme and Vetiver Fatal I believe perfumer Jerome Epinette has created one of each.
The King of Thailand has recognized vetiver as the “miracle grass” and sponsors the “King of Thailand Vetiver Awards” for outstanding works on vetiver. Vetiver is thought to attract money and repel thieves so some merchants keep a bit in their cash register
The latest release from Comme des Garcons is called Amazingreen and let me say this up front it is a good fragrance and for someone who has never tried a CdG perfume it might be incredible.
Like the difference between regular vinegar and 20-year balsamic vinegar this vanilla tincture oozes around the final stages of Divine Noir like a femme fatale in a noir novel. It is fantastic and is what lingers longest on my skin when the sun comes up
Speakeasy is an olfactive ode to film noir and illicit vices of an era long past captured by one of niche pefumery’s most talented perfumers Marc‐Antoine Corcchiatto of Parfums D’Empire
