Every four years a strange thing happens. We have an extra day in the month of February. This year, I thought it would be fun to look back at some very interesting perfumes that have “gone the way of the dodo”, as it were. Oh, they are still available (here and there) but now that they are “lost” (no longer in production).
The Electron Rose has a brilliant pink aspect to it and it is said the sap also carries a subtle fragrance. The Electron Rose is a hybrid tea rose. The idea of A Dozen Roses Electron the fragrance is to capture the vibrancy of this almost neon colored rose.
As February draws to a close, we have 12 unclaimed perfumes aka spilled perfume. Four winners will be eligible to win three fragrances each.
The highest achievement of any novelist is to create a world so real you can see, feel, hear and touch it. In the case of The Book of Lost Fragrances, the author M.J. Rose wrote a book where the reader enters the novel through their sense of smell. Frederick Bouchardy, owner of Joya Studio was …
Thankfully there are fragrances which come along to remind me that simplicity has its charms. One perfume house which seems to have a great track record at finding beauty in simple constructions is Diptyque, the latest bit of simple beauty from them is Eau Rose.
A Lab On Fire is a small label under the S-Perfume umbrella. They are making an impact by attracting some of the finest perfumers working to compose their fragrances. For What We Do In Paris Is Secret they asked Dominique Ropion to be the perfumer.
