Perhaps no other flower used in perfumery has been so maligned. Violets? Not an easy flower to love. Marie Antoinette loved violets ; she lost her head. Annelie and Michelyn collaborate February’s birthday flower. Enter our draw for CdG Stephen Jones, Calé Fragranze d’Autore, Brezza di Seta and Annelie’s Egyptian violet
I immediately told them I’d make a huge shape of a heart on the floor in shocking pink that smelled like LOVE…and call it 100% LOVE. Of course, I already knew the perfumer had to be the great Sophia Grojsman-Nobi Shioya
The Goddess of the underworld Persephone rejoins her mother Demeter, and we rejoice. It is the arrival of Spring Fever; all our senses are reawakened. It gives us fragrance fever. Enter our draw for Neil Morris Fragrances Spirit of Water
I really liked the way all three of these fragrances were dramatically different from each other and I feel safe in saying that there is one in here for every perfumista. In the end I walk away admiring the Smart Sharp Craft of Andrea Maack Parfums
What’s the buzz of the Parisian ‘perfumistas’? The new Lutens smells like bread! There’s a caveat with M. Serge Lutens: sometimes, you feel “obliged” to understand his work the way he explains it, let it speak on your skin. ENTER OUR DRAW FOR TWO SAMPLES OF JEAUX DE PEUX and a surprise. En Francais aussi
We celebrate the opening of a Caron boutique at MiN New York, which will carry four fountain fragrances: Tabac Blond, Or et Noir, N’Aimez Que Moi and a small urn of Poivre. Worldwide there are only twenty stockists that have the honor of carrying the special fragrances
