If you went to High School in the US it is very likely Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel Brave New World made it on to your summer reading list at some point. The idea of a World State tightly controlled and seemingly idyllic until touched by a bit of “savagery” is one of the great novels …
Natural Perfume Editor Ida Meister reviews three of the Brave New Scents in The Natural Perfumers Guild internet project.
The young man suddenly realized that perfumes – said by the Party to smell like All Good Things – smelled like nothing. The old man shook his head.
“Perfumes don’t smell like this any more. They can’t. But they did.”
The young man held up the vial.
“What’s in it?”
“Only natural things.”
François Hénin, the owner of Jovoy, the expert, has worked extensively on six new compositions in collaboration with Jacques Flori, Mark Fanton d’Andon, Michelle Saramito (all at Robertet) and Cécile Zarokian
Nathalie Lorsen is the nose for Dita Von Teese’s Femme Fatale.Now she is beginning her next perfume project, a men’s fragrance
I will always remember this line from the colorful and charismatic former mayor of New York (1977-1989), Ed Koch used to ask “How am I Doing” … so in the spirit of Mayor Koch, I ask the question, “How are we doing? LEAVE A COMMENT WE DO WANT TO KNOW
