For many Americans, their impression of the Moulin Rouge comes from the 2001 movie by Baz Luhrmann. In that movie a group of bohemians lived and died around the iconic windmill that stands for the fin de siècle establishment that created the Can-Can. For the 120th anniversary of the Moulin Rouge, Gerald Ghislain was approached to …
Parisian summer nights are too romantic to be resisted. The bright lights and vibrating Paris night life are intoxicating, almost hypnotic. They have a kind of transparent grace about them, a secret sensuality, a disturbing magic that electrifies the senses. With NUIT DE TUBEREUSE, L’Artisan Parfumeur, the daring alchemist, working with master perfumer …
MC: Scent, memory, literature, film, cuisine… Cafleurebon invites you to partake of the Brazilian culture through the nose and writing of Simone Shitrit , guest blogger. I know that when I smell L Lolita again, it will take on a new meaning for me… it will be more than a perfume, but a place and time; I will be transported. Fragrância é …
When it comes to the independent perfumer community, there is a group of talented artists who create interesting fragrances time and again. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is one of the members of that group for me and her latest release Bancha rewards my assessment. Although the name did not prepare me for the fragrance I would eventually …
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be involved in the birth of a new fragrance? Like many perfumistos, the idea is intriguing. I was fortunate to be the proud godfather to Sonoma Scent Studio’s latest –Incense Pure. It started, as so many things do in these days of the internet, with …
Geir Ness is the answer when people asked the question “What does Norway smell like as a perfume?” His creations Laila and Geir for Men play heavily on his Norwegian roots and Laila even carries the tagline of “Essence of Norway”. Now two young Norwegian women, model Britt Hovde Ross and actress Elisabeth Steen would …
