Carner Barcelona Cuirs was the single best new fragrance I hadn’t tried before at Elements Showcase. Sara Carner enlisted perfumer Sonia Constant to create a fragrance, “redolent with nostalgia for a bygone era of artisan ateliers, where pipesmoke filled the air fusing with the scent of finely tanned leather.”
Aside from its obvious culinary value, nutmeg was believed to cure everything from impotence to the Plague and has also been consumed for its supposed hallucinogenic qualities and the secret ingredient in Coca Cola.
Everyone wondered what a nice Jewish girl was doing hauling a sears toolbox filled with oils all over Southern California saying “may I anoint you”.My mother always said there was the paved path, and the one you needed a machete to carve out – and I was always a machete type of girl.
Roja Dove is not merely the Professor of Perfume, but the Carl Sagan of the fragrant universe. Every facet of Diagheliv honors Mitsouko perfume and the Ballet Rousses . I could smell the love of music, dance, and of the music and dance of perfume in this fragrance …Oscar Wilde and Sergei Diagheliv met in Paris. We have a 5ml draw
Roja Dove, recently answered the question “what makes a good perfume” and he replied “Good-quality materials and a perfumer following their own heartbeat and not copying someone or something else.” When I received a sample of XJ17/171861, at first sniff, I nearly swooned. This just may be one of the best citrusopenings I have smelled
The opening event at NY Elements Concept was a Bloody Mary premiere party for Blood Concept. Owners Antonio Zuddas and Giovanni Castelli want to create not only a fragrance and a true multimedia effort surrounding Blood Concept. If the fragrance is any judge of things the entire effort should be a huge success. We have thirty samples for thirty readers
