The Mystery of Musk Natural Perfumer’s Guild Internet Project Epilogue: * a secret about the mystery of musk* + Draw for Strange Invisible Perfumes Temple Of Musk

July 7, 2010July 8, 2010

Is it difficult to blend an accord similar to animal musk but solely with botanicals? You betcha. But the skilled perfumer can provide his or her customer with scents similar in effect to real musk by providing the human system the stimulus needed to enhance ones own ‘musk’ or personal scent. – We thank Anya McCoy and the Natural Perfumer’s Guild for including Cafleurebon in this project. We chose to spotlight each perfumer and their work individually. The draw for the bottle of Strange Invisible Perfumes Temple Of Musk we are giving away in conjunction with the project, ends July 7, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST

_Scents of Summer Swoon_ As Seen Through the Works of Maxfield Parrish

July 6, 2010July 8, 2010

*The Dogdays* are here- no denying it.I’ve never been a summer girl; I was */born hot/*. Now, if I lived a Caribbean life, or the much more sensible rhythm of
those in warmer climes- The lingering glass of pastis at noon, the leisurely siesta, the gentle early evening ambling along ancient Roman paths near Avignon, so I choose to greet the summer swelter by creating my own personal Paradise vis a vis scent

Fragrance Review: Honore des Pres We Love NY Collection

July 6, 2010July 6, 2010

There are few perfumers who have a signature style. One is is Olivia Giacobetti. Mme. Giacobetti also has an undeniable architecture to her fragrances, that of sheerness in beauty.Mme. Gicobetti returns with three new ‘green’ fragrances for Honore des Pres dubbed the “We Love NY” collection. The fragrances are packaged in that most disposable of New York City commodities the take-away coffee cup. While the packaging around this collection could be termed disposable, or common, the fragrances inside are not. Mme. Giacobetti’s We Love NY collection for Honore des Pres accurately captures many of the more pleasant smells of New York City and if one is up for an unusual olfactory tour your first step should be to acquire these fragrances

The Mystery of Musk: Charna Ethier Providence Perfumes Musk Nouveau * les vices de ma jeunesse à Paris*

July 6, 2010July 6, 2010

As in the words of Jean Claude Ellena, “A perfume must tell a story on the skin”. With eleven of the twelve submissions in, and having sniffed each one, I chose to write about the Mystery of Musk fragrance that told MY story…. Charna Ethier’s Musk Nouveau. The fragrance truly reminds me of the vices of my youth;a flashback to Paris of the early 1980s. Nous rencontrons l’auteur quand elle vivait à Paris

ÇaFleureBon Mystery of Musk Behind the Bottle: Ambrosia Jones of Perfume by Nature on ‘Craving’

July 5, 2010April 21, 2019

I asked Ambrosia Jones of Perfume by Nature to give us a peek into her creative process as she developed Craving for the Natural Perfumer’s Guild Mystery of Musk Project.
“Musk to me has always been about craving…it is about longing and animal passion….real, animal, natural….which is why “Craving” had to contain real scents, notes that reminded me of things I loved and craved myself….I didn’t want to create a clever perfume, I wanted to create a scent that made people feel passionate…It’s about smells I love, smells that make me feel happy, sexy, satiated….”

The Mystery of Musk Verdigris by Elise Pearlstine of BellyFlowers Perfume The Perfumer’s Walk

July 4, 2010July 6, 2010

Elise Pearlstine’s Verdigris is dirty, it is green, it is as rich and sexy as it was meant to be. The fir balsam, the clary sage and green mandarin greets the nose with a rainbow of bright flavors, the complexity and depth of the natural plant essences matched equally with the animalic drydown.
its as if Eve was indeed approaching Adam in the Garden and I… the voyeur…