Dr. Ellen Covey, the founder and perfumer of Olympic Orchids Artisan Perfumes, launches two new fragrances – Ballets Rouges and Salamanca. Both have been over a year in the making.Ballets Rouges is a classic Rose chypre and Salamanca is Dr. Covey’s long awaited ‘leather’ fragrance”
Winter is over and the first signs of spring have been greeting us, the snowdrops and winter aconites erupt everywhere, and the birds sing happily in the morning. However, bear with me, for one last time this year, while I look at winter from another perspective, and tell the story of two masterpieces.
I’ve mentioned how much the multi-disciplinary collaboration between perfumers and other artistic disciplines are fascinating to me. There were a number of excellent examples in 2011 and one of them was between filmmaker Brian Pera and perfumer Andy Tauer. We’ve examined these collaborations from the side of the perfumer so I thought it would be fun to hear from the other artist in the equation.
I like the simple pleasures of life: eating a homemade dinner and drinking wine by the fire place, walking in a forest in the fall, finding little details that no one sees in paintings, and spending time with my husband and daughter
Which scent will we wear in the new era we are about to step in? The the same way plasma is extracted from blood, we pull out all the visceral and dense mood BLOOD CONCEPT has been speaking about, to let a new whiter and ethereal identity take shape
Sororia Organics, an all-natural company started and run by Joyce Noerr, a member of both the Natural Perfumer’s Guild and the Handcrafted Soap Maker’s Guild, has released four new perfumes (just in time for spring) that celebrate different aspects of Nature.
