The Winner of CREED White Flowers Sample
No – I want something that gets modern the hard way. Something that has all the class of the past, but smells new and fresh. Something that is timeless enough to be then, now, and forever after.
The Winner of Fleur No 1 by Jessica Buchanan 1000 Flowers 10ml Sample
Like the best artists Ms. Buchanan has been taking her time and making sure the compositions she releases are what she wants them to be. I admire an artist that takes their time in the pursuit of their vision and Ms. Buchanan certainly seems to fall into that category.-Mark Behnke
NEW FRAGRANCE REVIEW-DSH Perfume Vanille Botanique, The Hand of Buddah, and Ruba’iyat: Botanical Bliss + 10mL Reader’s Choice Draw
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is one of those perfumers who always have something interesting to tell me when I get a new set of fragrances to try. Her latest set of releases due to be released in the next couple of months have her returning to a botanical framework and with two of the three looking eastward for inspiration. All three will be excellent fragrances for the fall and even though I’ve been testing them in the summer heat they still manage to show off their quality.
The Winner of “Haute Claire” Mini 5ml Spray by Aftelier Perfumes
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
The Winner of the Ajne Yuzu Pendant
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
Slumberhouse Kote, Mur and Verg: Olfactory Outsider Art + IndieScents Draw
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.