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.
Now at the end of the year two of the remaining three are released and they also share some commonality as these are centered on more masculine notes of vetiver for Mon Numero 3 and leather for Mon Numero 4. Both of them seem manlier than the other Mon Numeros.
Jessica September Buchanan‘s newest fragrant offspring is a 100 % botanical one.
Narcotic Flowers is her tender homage to the city of Grasse which is so thoroughly steeped in perfume history.
