To be frank I found it difficult to hold on to my A Perfume Organic Mejica sample long enough to write this review. I had a lot of ‘foodie’ friends on Martha’s Vineyard trying to slip this one in their pocket!
WARNING: Wearing Cannabis may attract many a new buddy as your perfume wafts under your door
Havana!
Caribbean capital of great beauty, history, and art; home to fine cigars and fine rum…
Visions of Hemingway, ex-patriates in casinos.
Entrepreneur Christian Bousidan was inspired by her, and created two new men’s eau de parfums to add to his existing NeJma line, Puro and Puro Intense.
When I first heard about the Natural Perfumers Guild Outlaw project my mind immediately went to oakmoss absolute. I knew this was one of the sensitizers and I really love using it. It is a wonderful natural and I would miss it dearly if it were gone from my “palette”.
It seemed to take a long time this year for Hermes to announce that there would be a new addition to the Hermessence collection of fragrances. As the summer wore on without an announcement it seemed like 2010 would leave us without one of Jean-Claude Ellena’s minimalist studies. Then right after Labor Day I received the press release announcing the ninth Hermessence, Iris Ukiyoe. Based on the name I expected a Japanese take on Iris. In many ways it seems the Japanese aesthetic and M. Ellena’s are so similar that it seems like a logical intersection of creativity.
Belle Starr the person was a mixture of gritty legend and more polished reality. Belle Starr the fragrance, created by Lisa Fong of Artemisia Perfumes for the Outlaw Perfumes project, reflects that duality in depiction of her namesake from the gritty “outlaw” jasmine to the polished “legal” rooibos Belle Starr shows off both faces in memorable fashion.
