Mandy Aftel has chosen “high and bright” to describe her new fragrance, Haute Claire , a scent born of recent correspondence with fellow perfumer Liz Zorn, A fragrance named for the burnished steel sword [replete with crystal imbedded in its golden hilt] brandished by Paladin Olivier in the Chanson de Roland?
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The perfumes of Serge Lutens and I have a twice a year love affair. My absentee lover beckons; this scented encounter fills me with impatience, lust, and the desire to fall in love again.Vitriol d’Oeillet was like being immersed in an atmosphere of the very late nineteenth century, that of the Romantics
As we launch Poncet’s Eau Eternelle, Sabine is joyfully sharing 14 samples AND 14 handmade gold-plated Mayfly pendants – of her own design – with 14 fortunate readers
One can only imagine the hippie jet set, with a nod to the extravagant lifestyle of the aristocratic adventuresses, end up on the shores on these beaches of paradise,surrounded by the picturesque city scape of Indo-multi-European influence, the hot air filled with the fragrant tuberose, jasmine, blossoming limette trees and patchouli
As America is the great melting pot we can take inspiration from everywhere in our world to give it voice and new cultural significance. I believe we are currently experiencing a new Renaissance of niche perfumery and American perfumery simultaneously. It is very exciting.
In all forms of art it is a special thrill when you find someone you think is going to have a special career and when it comes to perfume I think I might have found a similar precocious talent. Jessica September Buchanan has released her second fragrance Fleur No. 1 Ca fleure TRES bon!
