I don’t like to read press releases, before I did read Mr. Marvelous’s I just read the name and could not surpress thoughts of the Billy Crystal skits on Saturday Night Live. So I peeked and was more confused. I smelled the ghost of the Poete Maudit-Paul Verlaine and a stanza from Claire de Lune.
L’artisan Parfumeur will debut two coffrets from Bertrand Duchaufour, Karine Vichone, Anne Flipo, and Jean la Porte , Why do we have to wait?
Many existing lily fragrances depend on large quantities of Calone or other potentially screechy aromachemicals, in an attempt to express the limpid, watery quality of the lily.
Cartier’s Baiser Vole’ does not, and THAT is unique.
Perfumes are rarely and if ever derived from flowers after which they are named” ~ Joris Karl Huysmans
To Dream incorporates a wide variety of elements into a cohesive and interesting whole, which seems American. And in the true American indie spirit if generoisty Laurie Erickson emailed Michelyn Camen Editor in Chief. and as a surprise offerred TWO purse sprays to two different winners
Then there are the very infrequent times when I get something which treads the rose garden path but finds a way to display the rose slightly differently and like the best artists within a genre add their own nuance to the oeuvre. Richard Fraysse, the in-house nose for Caron, has done that with the new Caron fountain fragrance Delire de Roses.
