The Fragrance Foundation Fifi Awards were handed out in a gala ceremony in New York City on June 10th at The Downtown Armory. The Fifi Awards are considered to be the most prestigious awards in the industry and are frequently described as the “Oscars of the fragrance industry”. Via the Fifi awards Twitter feed …
I discovered Xerjoff fragrances about a year ago and was sent samples of the entire line at the time by the company. Xerjoff was positioning themselves to be the ultra-luxe Italian fragrance equivalent to Amouage and their French-Middle Eastern influences. Of this initial group of fragrances I admired the quality of all of them. …
Although many of us in the global fragrance community have been writing about the resurgence of Natural Perfumery as a ‘lost’ Art for nearly a decade, it it is now a ‘growing’ trend that has reached mainstream media. As our lives have been taken over by increasing isolation, technology (there have been more technologic advances over the the past five years than in the past 5000), and products that are mass produced without soul nor passion, the artisnal movement has been gaining momentum since the year 2000. It will not slow down, that I assure you. To refuse to acknowledge it, is burying your head in the sand.
Kama by AvaLuxe is one of those “unsung scents”- the sort that once you wear them, you go through several bottles, before you realize how gratifying they are. And how hooked you are.
Kamadeva, the Hindu god of Love [and the Hindu Cupid], provided Serena inspiration.
Ms. Han has done an incredible job of reformulating her original six fragrant oils into something different and exciting and altogether beautiful. I think this shows a perfumer who really understands the architecture which underlies her fragrances and how to successfully alter it. Then again what else would I expect from a perfumer for whom the Chinese character for her name, Yosh, means fragrant. It is clear to me she has a deep connection to her fragrances
As it happens, big cats of all stripes are obsessive when it comes to the scent. Roan Balas McNab, a Wildlife Conservation Society program director in Guatemala, has been using Obsession for Men since 2007 to help study jaguars in the Maya Biosphere Reserve, a protected tropical forest spanning 8,100 square miles.
