OSCARS SPOTLIGHT PART 2: What Are You Wafting? + Guerlain Fragrance Red Carpet Draw

February 26, 2011February 26, 2011

Like many of you Oscar night starts two hours prior to the ceremony as I sit down in front of my television to watch the fashion parade down the red carpet. I always await the moment when the interviewer asks “What are you wearing?” Of course the answer is about the dress she has on but just once I’d love to have an actress respond “Chanel No. 5 it’s my lucky scent. Oh you meant my dress its Chanel too.” I thought I might do a little research and try and figure out what fragrances might be present on the Red Carpet Sunday night.

THE WINNER OF NEIL MORRIS SPIRIT OF WATER BY NEIL MORRIS FRAGRANCES IS

February 25, 2011February 25, 2011

Neil based this fragrance on a childhood memory of a leisurely summer afternoon spent at Walden Pond in Concord, MA… the soft scents of trees and flowers But it was the water that had an aura. Congrats to Neil for his upcoming debut of a rose is a rose and at Bendel.

OSCAR SPOTLIGHT Part 1: Classic Fragrances in Classic Movie Moments + ‘Butterfield 8’ CaronTabac Blond Draw

February 24, 2011February 24, 2011

Movies are one of our greatest forms of story telling time to give perfumes in Academy award nominated and winning films their ‘props’. Grace Kelly Hitchcock Rear Window (1954) declares, “A woman going anywhere but the hospital would always take perfume.. enter our OscarSpotlight MiNNewYork ‘Butterfield 8’ Caron Tabac Blond draw

THE WINNERS OF YOSH HAN’S SOMBRE NEGRA FRAGRANCE DRAW ARE

February 24, 2011

This fragrance wears like a second skin.Sombre Negra will awaken distant memories and will put you into a state of wonderment. The video “Anatomy of Change” for Thierry Mugler featuring music by Lady Gaga hits the mark.

Hilde Soliani Conaffetto: A Complex Marriage Of Simplicity + Conaffeto Fragrance Draw

February 24, 2011February 24, 2011

Hilde Soliani’s latest creation Conaffetto is another example of her skill at coaxing the unexpected out of three notes. Conaffetto was created for the wedding day of a close friend of Sig.ra Soliani. The ingredients in confetti candy, almond and sugar, are two of the three ingredients Sig.ra Soliani uses in Conaffetto. The third ingredient is orange blossom. This seems perfect for a wedding day fragrance.

NEW FRAGRANCE: Parfumerie Generale: Praline de Santal “Trendsetting Fashion”

February 23, 2011June 13, 2015

A good friend of mine once told me that all PG perfumes could be described as two separate groups: “Pierre Dreams of Happiness” and “Pierre Dreams of Sweets”. Seems like Praline de Santal unites those groups into one big “Sweet Dream”.