America, rich with its pioneering history, has fostered a wealth of independent perfumers working in a variety of mediums. This new land embraces all the various forms of expression, including individuals as myself who work exclusively with a palette derived from nature.
Perfume 500 courses when a perfumer has created a fragrance which can be admired on a superficial level but if one takes the effort to delve into it there is much more to see than just the surface. There are a handful of perfume houses which seem to aspire to making perfume of this kind and Amouage is one of them.
Such was the case with Memo Shams which was released in the second half of 2011. If I had received this stunning fragrance while the calendar still read 2011 this would’ve been a contender for perfume of the year for me and certainly would have been on my top 25 for the year.
Alyssa, like many of us, discovered the world of perfume online, through reading blogs, websites and forums. She found a way to study natural aromas and perfumery, as well as expanding her knowledge of synthetic and mixed-media fragrances.
“Let them Eat Cake /Qu’ils mangent de la brioche,” is commonly misattributed to Marie Antoinette, supposedly when she was told that the peasants of France had no bread to eat. But in the spirit of the infamous phrase, if there was no light for the lower classes she would then have proclaimed “Let them light Cire Trudon Candles”
