Interview With Botanical Couture Perfumer JoAnne Bassett: Of Enfleurage And Renoir

JoAnne Bassett is a Fragrance Therapist, Botanical Couture Perfumer,
teacher, speaker, and author.
For 20 years she has been a spiritual alchemist and botanical expert
tapping into flowers and plants to utilize the creative power to impact lives.
JoAnne’s French royal heritage and the perfumers in her ancestry passed the
gift of perfumery to her. Her multi-dimensional fragrance collections are designed to align, shift, and enhance mood, spirit, and well being.

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Jo Malone Cologne Intense Collection: Christine Nagel At The Bat

When a baseball player hits a single, a double, a triple, and a home run, in one game, that is called “hitting for the cycle”. It is nothing short of extraordinary and shows the versatility of the hitter to be able to hit safely in every way. Jo Malone’s new in-house perfumer, Master Perfumer Christine Nagel has accomplished a similar feat in the newly released four fragrance collection for Jo Malone, Cologne Intense. Mme. Nagel has fashioned four different fragrant hits and at the same time shown her versatility as an artist. Each one of the four fragrances has a distinct personality and at the same time feels as if they are also part of the Jo Malone collection of fragrances.

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Friday Fragrance Wrap Up *six degrees of separation*-Bvlgari, Betsey Jonhson, Pucci, Cavalli and BURN Candles

We don’t cut and paste press releases. Its just not our style. If we get an official release from a fragrance company, it will always have our own spin. In todays’ Woman’s Wear Daily, six scented articlesappeared. Each one connects to me personally… through times in my life, former jobs, memories and scent.
And this quote by Betsey Johnson made my day…. and I hope it makes yours too…”There’s something important that should come along with a fragrance. A compliment.”

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