I’ve always found the best of the Huitieme Art Parfums as studies in the possibilities of the central ingredient and the newest and tenth member of the Huitieme Art Parfums family, Poudre de Riz is an excellent example of what I am talking about.
In these early Fall days of 2012 Bertrand Duchaufour reminded me of what an intelligent artist can do with a collection and the three perfumes he created for the Parfums Ann Gerard Collection exemplify what a collection really means.
Musmanno is an American, Canadian and British (EU) citizen and speaks fluent French… she comes from outside of the world of fragrance and has strong ties to luxury, fashion, art and music industries
The use of saffron as a sexual stimulant dates back to Biblical times when the Egyptians used saffron in scents and body washes for the very wealthy, including Queen Cleopatra. Saffron was brought to Kashmir by the Persians in the 11th/12th century AD and its use and cultivation spread quickly throughout the country.
Thierry Mugler has to be the most successful perfume brand at creating flankers of their iconic fragrances. I have rarely found them to be boring and very often the care shown these flankers provide a guide to other perfume lines on how to do it right
One word, more than any other, makes my stomach fall when we are talking about perfume. That word is “reformulated”. There were already a couple flankers of both Silences and Jacomo de Jacomo, and this is to be expected when something sells so well. Now we have Silences Eau de Parfum Sublime and Jacomo de Jacomo Original to consider.
