Much like a kaleidoscope or prism, I keep holding Palisander up to the light to examine it more closely, because it spans the tightrope between the sacred and the sensual with such deft, sure footing. Our draw is for a 15ml flacon of
Ares EDC is a light amber with spicy top notes at first; after a while, the scent becomes pure amber. – Adam Gottschalk, Natural Perfumer and member of The Natural Perfumer’s Guild
Sometimes I wish that I could just recuse myself from judging a scent. Maybe I should just go back to my lab issuing my self-important pronouncements as a molecular Moses You see, the scent that Pardon most reminds me of, doesn’t even smell like Pardon. In truth, their greatest shared value is simply that they’re equally enigmatic.
Perfume is about impermanence; it is about something fleeting, volatile, there-and-not-there. There is also an authentic sparseness – pare things down to their essence, but keep the poetry- Mandy Aftel
It’s 79 degrees today in New York, not quite sweater weather, but time to start transitioning into cold weather scents
Vol de Nuit opens with galbanum. When I smelled it for the first time at Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s studio, it reminded me of swamp. I hated it. the jolt of galbanum makes my nerves tingle & my body get ready to jump at whatever happens.But then there is Margarita’s laughter
