When I see the word “blue” in a perfumes title, very often I cringe. It is either some ubiquitous aquatic or a “nice clean” laundry fragrance. When I received Bellyflowers’ Blue Jasmine, for this review, its notes were very intriguing to me. Lotus, jasmine, more jasmine, vetiver, cypriol and sandalwood were all that was mentioned by the perfumer, but there was so much more.
In Spain at a Michelin three-star restaurant named El Celler de Can Roca fragrance plays a co-starring role in pastry chef Jordi Roca’s creations. With a dessert called Lemon Distillation he included a fragrance meant to enhance the citrus notes of the dessert. After a number of requests to buy the perfume Sr. Roca has bottled it and under the Roca Perfums label released Nuvol di Llimona (Lemon Cloud).
I just got to try Mary Greenwell Plum. Mary Greenwell Plum was an exclusive release to the House of Fraser in the UK. It was released there in October of 2010. It was described as a “contemporary chypre”. It was the first fragrance by “Award winning makeup artist Mary Greenwell”. It was being composed by Francois Robert of Les Parfums de Rosine fame. It was unobtainable and most everyone that encountered it waxed rhapsodically about this is how it is done. Then in December of 2011 it became available in the US, and to me. Is it the second coming of chypre for the twenty-first century?
One of the things that first attracted me to the House of Lord’s Jester was that they are all natural perfumes made with no synthetics whatsoever
