There are two leather chairs downstairs at the Le Labo boutique housed inside Barneys New York. These chairs are slightly angled toward each other, just waiting for two people to sit down and talk, hopefully about perfume, and that’s exactly what Mark Behnke, Managing Editor, Cafleurebon and I did.
The fragrance community is full of fantastic people and so with that said…when I make perfumes, I try to stick with my three (core) values: raw, unique and approachable. -Kerosene
I learned that perfume making and music have such faithful similarities. I was entirely bewitched. I had no idea that I could play the scents in chords much like I had the piano keys in my youth
The latest Tom Ford Private Blend is called Lavender Palm and it is meant to capture the feel of California. I finally got a chance to try it at the recent Sniffapalooza Spring Fling. What I found was a fragrance which did remind me of California but a specific locale in the Golden State, Palm Springs.
The Natural Perfumers Guild members voted on what constitutes a natural isolate to meet challenges to the “naturalness” of isolates.
Niche perfumer Keiko Mecheri often takes inspiration for her fragrances from her travels and exotic locales
