Smells, tastes, even art, and the physical experience have always been intertwined in my memory. I love hiking and smelling, cooking and eating, gardening and harvesting fruits and flowers.
The latest fragrance to tie itself to a famous historic figure was Lubin Black Jade. aka the personal fragrance of none other than Marie Antoinette who slipped it to trusted confidant, the Marquise de Tourzel, shortly before her death. Whether that’s based on reality I can tell you is Black Jade is a wonderfully light spicy fragrance perfect for fall sweater weather.
My brain is besieged with incendiary images of young, newly-wed Fay’s erotic frustration in the story Saffron [Little Birds, by Anais Nin].
Bottega Veneta- the prominent house of exquisitely handmade leather goods- has finally launched its first foray into The Fragrant World.
I think it was worth the wait. we have four samples for four friends of CaFleureBon
Their emergence feels intuitive, an intrinsic outgrowth of the collaboration between Shelley (yin) and Juan Perez (yang)
In perfumery, the list of scent notes and accords available to work from is long and all-encompassing, from sweet blossoms to tar. It seems fairly inevitable that there will be a note or two we find incomprehensible, if not downright repellant. My difficulty has been in understanding one of the greatest perfumery notes of all: the noble iris
