The Ten Winners of Vanilla and Chocolate Notes in Perfumery Draw
Both chocolate and vanilla can add richness, depth and sometimes unexpected notes to perfumes and don’t have to be boring and bland.
Both chocolate and vanilla can add richness, depth and sometimes unexpected notes to perfumes and don’t have to be boring and bland.
From the start, we decided to target the high end of the consumer market and we decided to produce “luxury” perfumes in magnificent flacons that are collectibles. I think it was the right choice since these consumers are connoisseurs and enjoy high quality
.What I love most about perfume is that all of us perceive it very differently, and it is not a given that two people, even the close perfumista friends, will smell the same fragrance and have the same response to it. Our draw is for the rare chypre Lentheric Tweed
Managing Editor Mark Behnke called it; he noted in his top twenty five best fragrances of 2011 that 2011 was a banner year for quality department store perfumes. According to Woman’s Wear Daily the numbers back it up citing double digit increasese in November and December.
Maria-Candida Gentile was one of the perfumers I wanted to meet at Pitti Fragranze 2011 in Florence. I had never smelt her perfumes, just read some great reviews by others. So when we met, I began to smell all the perfumes first, and was really surprised that the perfumer was there too!
When I first created TAKEN I never intended to make it available to anyone else. But after years of being followed by people wanting to know what I was wearing, I started to rethink the possibility of putting in on the market TAKEN is a luscious blend fit for the ultimate vanilla lover.