TRUE COLORS: Pansies and Tulips Winners
When it comes to the realm of fragrance pansies and tulips aren’t given the same deference as roses, jasmine, violets, lilies, or plumeria, which have a strong fragrance
CaFleureBon Favorite Summer Scents: Part 1 + Billie Holiday “Lady Day” Summertime Draw
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.
The Three Winners of Happy 53rd Bithday Prince Draw
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.
Guerlain Le Elixir Charnel Floral Romantique + “Embrace The Feminine Draw”
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 Four Winners of BellyFlowers “Wild Chypre”
The wild-crafting of these plants, and their harvesting- ensures “that healthy populations remain in the wild for future generations “, according to Elise Perlstine
Thierry Mugler Boys of Summer: Aurelien Guichard and Dominique Ropion + Gaugin Draw
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.