NEW Fragrance : Diptyque Vetyverio – “Luncheon on the Grass”

June 21, 2010July 1, 2010

For Vetyverio M. Pescheux has chosen to use a blueprint that worked for another Diptyque fragrance, Tam Dao. Tam Dao is one of the most complex studies of a single note, sandalwood, as exists in perfumery. It works because, Daniele Moliere the nose, allowed sandalwood to create an axis around which the other notes would interact and allow for those interactions to illuminate and delineate the central note. In Vetyverio I experienced the same kind of development as M. Pescheux takes us on a journey through all that vetiver can be

The Winners of the EIGHT Fragrance of Our Fathers Draws are…….

June 20, 2010June 20, 2010

Here is wishing everyone a Happy Father’s Day. A heartfelt thank you to all our contributors,sponsors and poster for such evocative scented memories.

Fragrance of Our Fathers Finale + Sense of Honour by Perfume of Life Draw

June 19, 2010June 18, 2021

We conclude our seven part series, Fragrances of our Fathers. Thank you to all the contributors, all who shared with our readers the meaning of filial love, through the fifth sense. It’s as adults, that we realize that these strong olfactive memories, are time in a bottle. To our fathers and grandfathers, we are forevever connected.

The Scent of Hope: L’Eau Verte du Bronx du Sud

June 19, 2010June 19, 2010

Majora Carter, a community activist in the South Bronx in New York City, TED speaker and the woman who is ‘greening the ghetto’

teamed up with an unlikely duo- two French perfumers Bruno Jovanovic and Pascal Gaurin from IFF who created L’Eau Verte du Bronx du Sud (the Green Water of the South Bronx ).The fragrance isn’t intended for personal use; its purpose was create an ambiance of wellbeing at the low-income housing development—the Sister Thomas Apartments.

New Fragrance: AVENTUS by CREED

June 18, 2010June 18, 2010

The official press release states that Olivier CREED is the nose for Aventus, the new fragrance for men celebrates the House of CREED’s 150th birthday, we have it on good authority that it the House’s heir, 7th generation Erwin CREED that formulated this “Eau de” to Napoloean, the Corsican general who became Emporer of France in 1814

‘Eau de Popsie’: By Senior Editor Ida Meister

June 18, 2010June 16, 2018

I lathered up the fluffy old badger brush, still redolent of the musky, animalic bristles with which it was made, and the creamy, mild- scented soap [ which can best be described as smelling faintly of both olives and clean babies’ bottoms ] .