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
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.
