I love being an Indie Niche Perfumer in America.I can choose the raw materials I want to work with.That is the benefit of being an American perfumer at this moment of regulation in Europe.
In perfumery, the list of scent notes and accords available to work from is long and all-encompassing, from sweet blossoms to tar. It seems fairly inevitable that there will be a note or two we find incomprehensible
A few weeks ago, when Neil and I were going at it, sniffing like crazed creatures- I experienced a powerful correlation between two vastly different perfumes, Scrumptious and Tea House, he had created Scrumptious and Teahouse. Happy Birthday and both fragrances are for draw!
When Italians refer to someone as an “amica per la pelle” they mean “friends for the skin”- aka bosom buddies, friends for life. I think that these four winners will be Ida Meister's friends for life!! Leslie Shamsi Ruhe Ceil Masha Please contact Michelyn@cafleurebon.com with Bottega Veneta as the subject and your address …
EIC Michelyn Camen was contacted by Elizabeth Chan of SELF magazine , a reader of CaFleureBon, to be part of a special fragrance promotion to benefit women all over the world, 2000 samples of DKNY Pure Verbena from now to October. Show you care !
One of the edgier perfume houses is Comme des Garcons. Particularly over the last couple of years as they have undertaken co-creative ventures with a number of different artists and translated it into fragrances. For the collaboration with Hussein Chalayan they chose to take inspiration from his Autumn/Winter 2007 collection titled ‘Airborne’. The most buzzed about look at that show was the dress which was covered with LED lights and that gave the effect of flying through the clouds as it shifted and flowed.
