The French word haute has several meanings: high, tall, loud-pitched, early [usage in antiquity, the Middle Ages], far back in time, noble, high-ranking, Claire has many plausible definitions as well: light, fair, bright, neat, pure, clear, pale, plain, evident
I have worn Haute Claire for several days now, and for me it is pure nobility, pure and simple
Yuzu fruit is a hybrid variety of mandarin and papeda, which has been used in both Japanese and Chinese medicine for hundreds of years to relax the mind Bergamot oil from Calabria is used in the composition along with the pink grapefruit, and lime; instantaneous mood lifting
When I recently received three samples from the Portland, Oregon based Slumberhouse the concept of creating perfume outside the mainstream took hold a little more firmly because when I tried Kote, Mur, and Verg I thought that this might actually be the first real example of olfactory outsider art.
The duality- the carnation in the button hole of an English gentlemen, and carnation between the teeth of a femme fatale. Serge Lutens revives floral grandeur (as he did with beautiful “Tuberouse Criminelle”) but Vitriol d’Oeillet has a touch of the animalic lurking behind its sophisticated appearance
. Why, pray tell, do I love scent so much?It is the idea that beauty itself has some kind of hold on us, and that the closer we get to this almost nonexistent abstraction of beauty, the more intensely we are bound thoughts such as these, are inspired in me by Olivier Creed’s latest gift to the fragrant world –White Flowers
When one of our favorite American niche perfumers brings collaborates with Anthropologie we know it will ca fleure bon. What brought them together? It was their mutual passion for perfume, art, design, travel and literature. The collection was inspired by Ineke’s garden
