Behind The Bottle: Keiko Mecheri “Paradise Lost” Winner
Perfumes are rarely and if ever derived from flowers after which they are named” ~ Joris Karl Huysmans
CaFleureBon Profiles in American Perfumery: Laurie Erickson TWO Winners “It’s Not A DREAM”
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
Caron Delire de Roses: A Fountain Of Roses + Urn sample Draw
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.
ÇaFleureBon Behind the Bottle with Shelley Waddington: L’Emblem Rouge + “Natural Rose” Draw
Hi, Shelley! It’s a pleasure doing a ‘behind the bottle’ with you, finally. I’ve enjoyed sampling your work, and your latest, botanical l’Emblem Rouge, I find particularly delightful! First, though, there are so many things I long to ask you, they buzz about in my head like a swarm of wayward bees.
The Winner of Three Outsider Art by Slumberhouse Samples Indiescents Draw
We are a group of young gents who march to our own beat, embracing an absolute disregard for other brands, trends and marketing clichés. Slumberhouse represents an unequivocal love for the art of fragrance making
FRAGRANCE REVIEW: Abdes Salaam Attar’s Sharif “Fierce -Suave- Nobility” + Nobility Draw
Sharif is a unisex perfume of a sophisticated elegance that attracts attention to the person who wears it, like the radiant light of a person’s character attracts the attention of all those present Sharif means « noble man» in the Arabic language, not by lineage.