Dr Ellen Covey’s perfumes are olfactory manifestations of her life and experiences. Like her life, they don’t follow any standard formula, but rather are an eccentric, serendipitous, and joyful journey.
Neil sternberg brings you an episode of “Joey and Snake’s Virtual Truckstop of Fragrance Fashion” for their Christmas special, lost somewhere in the petabytes of YouTube…..this time it is three Micallef fragrances they are talking about.
Growing up there were so many songs for Christmas and just a few traditional BORING songs for Hanukkah. But it took Adam Sandler the son of a schmata (garment center) guy to write the first contemporary Hanukah song. Smellbent’s Hansel and Dreidel winner is
Amorvero was initially created to be the exclusive fragrance of the Hotel Hassler Roma. Roberto Wirth the President of the hotel wanted a sophisticated feminine fragrance
Geza Schoen is one of our most cerebral perfumers. . It is why when I heard he was making a perfume for the 20th anniversary of the death of German actor Klaus Kinski I was elated. I had a feeling Hr. Schoen would not put out some assembly line celebuscent but would challenge me aesthetically and intellectually, which he does with his new fragrance Kinski.
I will always wonder if naming the perfume Epione and saying the name aloud was an invocation of soothing.
