Walking together on a beach in Southern California or living on a farm in Oklahoma, we honor them. Born in Athens or in Brooklyn, whether it was Aramis or Chanel pour Monsieur or the smell of coconut oil, mango or the “deep scent of rat shit”, the scents of our fathers and their fathers pervade our memories.
What is a father? Is it our biological male parent? Not always… The Father-child relationship is more than paternity. In this six part series I have asked many friends-in fragrances to create an olfactive portrait of their father or father figure. Some chose to use poetry, some music, some prose. Yet, there was a marked difference between an earlier piece we did for Mother’s Day entitled Scented Memories of Our Mothers http://tinyurl.com/33uyfe ; the fragrance of our fathers seemed more about rituals and ‘smells’
For their second collaboration Mme. Roth and M. Vasnier choose another well-known floral as their central accord and, as in Mythique, find a unique source to build their new fragrance Coup de Foudre around. The flower at the center of Coup de Foudre is rose and M. Vasnier goes right to the heart of French perfumery in Grasse and uses one of the two remaining fields of Rose de Mai (Rosa Centifolia) as the source. Through a new extraction process gave the Rose de Mai a “feel of sniffing a live rose on the vine they wanted to add a new vibrancy to a rose fragrance”.
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.
