Behind the Bottle:The Winners of The Sample Sets Of Amouage Honour
Christopher Chong, thank you for “Honouring” us with a chance to see behind the bottle on these brand new fragrances from Amouage.
Carthusia Corallium: Mediterranean Melange
I don’t know if it is that all of the Carthusia fragrances are inspired by a Mediterranean island where the weather is always warm but they just seem to fill my summer sweet spot almost perfectly. Corallium will be joining Uomo and Numero Uno as part of this summer’s rotation, for me.
The Winner of Liz Earle Botanical Essence No. 1 EDP
Ms. Earle’s love of natural ingredients and dedication to creating chemical free products inspired her to introduce a new fragrance- Botanical Essence #1, may come from the U.K but Jean Charles Niel, Perfumer, hails from France
Natural Perfumers Guild June 1, 2011 UNCORKED Blogging Event: Happy 5th B’Day NPG [Or, My Path To Natural Perfumery]
Uncorked! Is a blogging event sponsored by the Natural Perfumers Guild celebrating voices telling us all their inner stories of how they came to love natural aromatics *or* why they love natural perfumery.
Scent “Mule” is Sentenced in Brooklyn Federal Court
We often joke about having to smuggle fragrance into the country via our Paris, london,Milan and New York bound perfumista friends . At the top of our list are mostly French owned perfume companies…Serge Lutens and Le Labo, for example. A former Air France Flight Hostess had four flacons confiscated. What was inside?
I Hate Perfume by Tim Girvin: A Journey to Brooklyn, Brosius and Beyond
The interesting character about Brosius’ distinction relates to just that — a focus and attention to build on a dream of exploring the complexities of the fragrance space, then actually building a place, a personalized retail space to tell that story. What I found compelling about the modeling of this “celebrity perfume” is the nature of it’s antithetical character and vitality of build. Anti-celebrity, so called. Rather than the hazy “image charts” and “marketing briefs” of conventional fragrance houses — Brosius and Cumming worked together, building and exploring: notes on that experience offer a hint of that collaboration