Mona di Orio’s Les Nombres D’Or are meant to highlight the highest quality materials and the previous entries have done an excellent job of setting the titular ingredient off like a diamond solitaire. For the latest two Mme di Orio has chosen two of the most ubiquitous notes in perfumery, vetiver and vanilla, for the same treatment.
Francesca and Kate were so generous with their samples, that it will require 2 posts to attempt to cover most of them, because this is a naturals- only report. We at Ca Fleure Bon would liketo acquaint you with their serendipitous encounter.
We know there are many fans of Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, the muli talented muli media artist. Dawn is very special to all the members of CaFleurebon; Ida remembers her from her Boston days Mark has carried her on his shoulders and we have had the honor of Lautrec – created by DSH-to honor our first anniversary.
As a fan of many of Kenzo fragrances, when I get a press release saying there is going to be a big launch behind one of their fragrances I hit the keyboard. Again another Perfumery going for the youth market, as Kenzo Tag is targeted to a younger customer
Many perfumistas heard the Jean Claude Ellena was writing a book several years ago. I was on a waiting list at Amazon.com for at least a year until I finally took it out of my cart.Well it’s back in!
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