2011, if it keeps going in this way, is going to be the Bertrand Duchaufour Scent of The Month Club. As we stand here in the middle of May I am trying the fifth fragrance by M Duchaufour. .
Yes it happens to even the most dedicated perfumistos. The“lemmings” leave, you admire the woodwork on your vanity more than the cherished flacons and you pretend you are not at home when the UPS man shows up at your door; you are officially suffering from fragrance fatigue.
Pierre Montale has become a Barista of Oud when it comes to fragrance as he continues to find new variations on the core note of agarwood. With over 26, and counting, aoud fragrances to choose from there is very likely one somewhere in there for everyone who wants to wear an oud based fragrance. The two newest releases, Dark Aoud and Moon Aoud, are very different from each other
My preferred way to wear scent especially during the warmer months, may strike readers as unusual. I wear a few drops of Ormonde Jayne’s paraben-free Bathing Essential Bathing Oil directly on my skin. The champaca flower is sacred to the Hindi god Vishnu, the consort to Lakshmi-the god and goddesses of love!
So Mark and Ida have filled your head with some of the sugarplums – excuse me – new releases – introduced at last week’s Sniffa and I wonder why neither spoke of the before and after.
In the first of a series of fragrances that will center around the main ingredient of Oud (agarwood) The Different Company's first composition by Bertrand Duchaufour is named Oud Shamash. In composing Oud Shamash, Bertrand Duchaufour also uses notes of leather, rum and other resins. Oud Shamash is an "I’ve-succeeded-in-life” scent, which goes against the …
