Pierre Balmain on the phone (1914-1982) Getty Pierre Balmain notes in his autobiography My Years and Seasons – that “My friend, Germaine Cellier, had just invented a perfume for me which evoked the best kind of elegance of which I wanted to be the harbinger. I named it Élysées 64-83, my first telephone number.” Rene Gruau How might any …
To call Vintage Balmain Vent Vert a Green Wind is short shrift. I was enchanted by Germaine Cellier overdosing of an intense, insistent, resinous galbanum
DSH Perfumes Soho Boheme was inspired by Dawn Spencer Hurwitz imagining Germaine Cellier relocating to Soho and residing at the Chelsea Hotel
Vintage Jolie Madame by Balmain composed by Perfumer Germaine Cellier in 1953 doesn’t use her signature overdose of ingredients
Esxence 2024 Metamorphosis has morphed from hen I first visited seven years ago to a gargantuan exhilarating and exhausting fair
The Best Fragrances of 2023 celebrated scent as ART through innovation, inclusivity, diversity and remastered classic ingredients
