Jessica September tiptoes down venerably ancient streets under night’s cloak surrounded by heady nocturnal -blooming flowers.
Those opulent blossoms which perfume the daylight hours linger with a ghostly beauty
My favorite sensorial aspect of the holidays is no different as my touchstone scent is gingerbread. I thought I’d build a fragrant Gingerbread House of my favorite five fragrances, four walls and a roof Our draw is from a secret santa.
We began the project with our medtiation’s on gardens in a historic and mythical sense. Gardens have long symbolized notions of luxury, status/privilege, freedom, sexuality, and fertility. Centered around this brief the Standard Spa Miami was asked to fill out a perfume profile envisioning what type of garden would best represent the property
It seems every holiday season I am somehow compelled to edit “’Twas the Night Before Christmas”, by Clement Clarke Moore, into something amusing, I hope. For 2011 I am imagining a fine smelling house crammed full of Natural Perfumers on Christmas Eve. The Christmas tree above is our own Editor Tama Blough’s complete with natural goodies and soy milk for Scent-a Claus.
Alexandra Balahoutis is one of the most talented natural perfumers because she is uncompromising in using natural ingredients to realize her vision. Early in the year Ms. Balahoutis released a very limited edition named Dimanche.
Malle is thinking about opening his own stores in Los Angeles and Florida, but he’s not sold on big cities. “I believe it’s nice to open where people don’t expect you to open,” he said
