July 4 is American Independence Day and gives me an excuse to begin a series profiles of some of our best American perfumers and perfumeries in all genres. So what is an American perfumer? like most of us you or your family were born somewhere elseYou may even have dual citizenship, like Kilian Hennessy
Ms. Waddington says that she was inspired by the Cypress Inn in Carmel which is famous for having Doris Day as one of the owners. Carmel de Ville has the bright quality that Doris Day brought to her romantic comedies with Rock Hudson.
There is a certain belief among many that any attempt to create a flanker of a legendary perfume like Shalimar is a crime against perfumery. Thierry Wasser, the current in-house perfumer at Guerlain, was approached by his young niece to create a Shalimar for her. The result of that conversation is the new release Shalimar Parfum Initial.
Neil Morris, who is one of many perfumers who represent the indie spirit of American perfumery that I admire. But he was the first I met and hugged; he will always will be special for that.
It is always an interesting process to see a haute couture design aesthetic rendered as a fragrance. What will the perfumer and designer come up with to represent the fashion in a fragrant way? Working with Evelyn El Koubi to create her first two signature fragrances Marie Saint-Pierre chose to break her strong but feminine aesthetic in half. B is a strong spicy unisex fragrance and C is a floral enticing feminine fragrance.
This month EIC Michelyn Camen didn’t write a Letter to the Editor for June , this post proved controversial enough
