Cologne Absolue is a term we invented. It means a citrus-based scent, which is the original meaning of “cologne”, blended with unexpected ingredients in an “eau de parfum” type of concentration, thus with personality and lasting power -Sylvie Ganter
I was never privileged to smell the 1959 Piguet original release-
But thanks to lovely Lindsey Adams, Director Of Training for Robert Piguet Parfums-
I was able to sample the new rendering of Calypso, authored by Givaudan’s gorgeous Aurelien Guichard, which is floral seduction on a subtler scale.
There are dozens of Christmas scents that people of all religions love and wear, but there hasn’t been a fragrance named for Hanukkah (aka Hanukah & Chanukah) until Hanukah Cannelle. Created by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz, (even if you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa or Festivus), it’s still a perfect holiday scent that’s sexy, luscious, and a delight to wear all year round
If you would like romance to be bottled, and I believe it has been, then Velvet & Sweet Pea’s Purrfumery Bed of Roses is the scent for you.
Does anyone really need 12 bottles of their favorite fragrance under the tree or piled next to the Menorah? The Ca Fleure Bon’s Cyber Monday Gift Guide will please even the pickiest perfumistas and discriminating connoisseurs…all you do is point and click
Joseph Quartana’s Six Scents project is always of interest to me. His stated credo for Six Scents is this:
“We choose the rising stars of the fashion industry who will one day be big enough to have their own fragrance but who are too small to have it just yet. So we steal from the future and offer it now.”
