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.
The duality- the carnation in the button hole of an English gentlemen, and carnation between the teeth of a femme fatale. Serge Lutens revives floral grandeur (as he did with beautiful “Tuberouse Criminelle”) but Vitriol d’Oeillet has a touch of the animalic lurking behind its sophisticated appearance
. Why, pray tell, do I love scent so much?It is the idea that beauty itself has some kind of hold on us, and that the closer we get to this almost nonexistent abstraction of beauty, the more intensely we are bound thoughts such as these, are inspired in me by Olivier Creed’s latest gift to the fragrant world –White Flowers
When one of our favorite American niche perfumers brings collaborates with Anthropologie we know it will ca fleure bon. What brought them together? It was their mutual passion for perfume, art, design, travel and literature. The collection was inspired by Ineke’s garden
“Valentina” is meant to evoke young Italian heiresses- the ‘it girls’ who are flocking to wear the new haute couture under the House’s new creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli .Danish model Freja Beha will be the face of Valentina
I have never been to the South Pacific and yet after wearing Tahitian Honey I somehow feel as if I have. Vacances takes me to a different island milieu in the Caribbean. Both are truly spectacular composition by Alexandra Balahoutis of Strange Invisible Perfumes.
