Summer is only eight days away, what the season has in store we can’t be sure— but we know what we will be wafting. Summertime is a great chance to grab a glass of something cold, read a trashy book, park under a tree, find a favorite patch of lawn, or try out a porch swing.
We all adore Klimt’s Kiss- but Franz von Stuck’s version of an erotic sphinx doling out a conflagratory buss is pretty hot stuff; I think The Artist Formerly Known As would approve as he stood in the purple rain.
The fifth Le Elixir Charnel, Floral Romantique, has just been released. The inspiration this time was to be “The Romantic Woman” and in Thierry Wasser’s perfumed vocabulary that means a woody floral. It also means this one is my favorite Le Elixirs Charnels so far.
The wild-crafting of these plants, and their harvesting- ensures “that healthy populations remain in the wild for future generations “, according to Elise Perlstine
As a rule every time I see “summer” on the label I avoid it. Like anything all rules are made to be broken and the Sunessence editions of Thierry Mugler’s trademark fragrances Angel and Alien have become those rulebreakers, for me.
So let’s pay homage to the common tulips and pansy though the avant garde lenses of Illamasqua, Christian Dior Couture, Hilde Soliani, L’Artisan Parfumeur Traversee du Bosophore and Ellie Nuit by Michel Roudnitska.
