My preferred way to wear scent especially during the warmer months, may strike readers as unusual. I wear a few drops of Ormonde Jayne’s paraben-free Bathing Essential Bathing Oil directly on my skin. The champaca flower is sacred to the Hindi god Vishnu, the consort to Lakshmi-the god and goddesses of love!
So Mark and Ida have filled your head with some of the sugarplums – excuse me – new releases – introduced at last week’s Sniffa and I wonder why neither spoke of the before and after.
In the first of a series of fragrances that will center around the main ingredient of Oud (agarwood) The Different Company's first composition by Bertrand Duchaufour is named Oud Shamash. In composing Oud Shamash, Bertrand Duchaufour also uses notes of leather, rum and other resins. Oud Shamash is an "I’ve-succeeded-in-life” scent, which goes against the …
Azagury Perfume like its namesake exudes a distinctive British style that those who enjoy Miller Harris or Penhaligon’s would easily recognize. Like Mr. Azagury’s fashion it also has a uniqueness which adds to that national foundation
MoonDance was created to celebrate my birthday, and was released on that day, October 5. My adult life was graced with Van Morrison’s beautiful, soaring song Moondance, which called out for me to honor it with a natural perfume
Earlier this year in NYC at Elements, I barely had the opportunity to thoroughly examine the soOud collection…
I was captivated by Stéphane Humbert- Lucas- that too-handsome rascal nose for both Nez à Nez and soOud.
Last weekend – during Sniffapalooza’s Spring Fling- I was able to devote more time to the lot…and I did.
Several fragrances caught my nose- but only one did I purchase and that one was Burqa.
