Renaissance Artist Arcimboldo: Nature, Fantasy & Fragrance + Patou Draw
As a perfumista, I am drawn to the parallel that the composite painting creates a new whole, greater than the sum of its parts, much in the same manner of an exquisite fragrance
Xerjoff Richwood and Damarose: When Quality Matters + Sample Draw
The two latest releases from Xerjoff, Richwood and Damarose, are excellent examples of their design aesthetic. Richwood welds together rose, sandalwood and patchouli; Damarose creates a lush opulent rose chypre. Both of these fragrances show what can be done when the finest ingredients are available to be used by a perfumer.
Dawn Spencer Hurwitz Café Noir: Café Soigné
Urbane, witty, never treacly-
Café Noir is a masterful amalgam of spice, resin, blossoms, and darkest java.
Sarah Horowitz Parfums Artisan Collection: Give Me Roots Give Me Wings
Inspired by a beautiful poem recited to Sarah Horowitz by her father when she was a child…Roots and Wings…this beautiful poem gave birth in Sarah’s creative mind to this equally gorgeous trio of scents…Wings, Roots and Belle Route.
1/11/11: Looking Ahead to A Fragrant Year + A SCENTSATIONAL ’11’ PERFUME DRAW
What’s the significance of 1/11/11? Magical? Mystical? We are just a group of nine perfumistas, from NYC to Siberia, looking ahead to a fragrant 2011…each share 11 of our individual hopes, dreams and of course the perfumes. ATT: ‘Fumeheads- 11 scented prizes in this draw!!!!
Preserving Vintage Fragrances as Cultural Icons (or the Trouble with IFRA) in English and Русский текст
UNESCO Committee in Nairobi, Kenia has a list of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding (including Turkish Kirkpinar oil wrestling).. Aren’t vintage perfume formulations worthy of the same preservation.