Series 4 , A Divine Narrative is a collaboration between six artists and six perfumers. Each perfume is a fictional charachter imagined by the designers and explores the dynamic between designer and muse.
Parfums MDCI Chypre Palatin opens with a symphony, an overused term that completely suits this occasion. There is forest, there is soap, there is comforting darkness and fizzy light all at once. I am taken to my grandmother’s powdery dressing table, to my mother’s fine wool sweater I nuzzled as a child, to my father’s cigar box. Chypre Palatin smells like none of these things exactly, but conjures all of these things in my mind.
Maître Parfumeur et Gantier was founded by the late Jean-François Laporte when there were few niche perfumery brands.Jean-Paul Millet Lage was his student and now owner granted CaFleurebon an exclusive interview. There is a reader’s choice of any 42 MPG fragrances
Several months ago M. Marchal told us that the next Parfums MCDI would be an oriental chypre by Bertrand Duchaufour (who created their last fragrance La Belle Helene).
One of the things that usually irk me about most mass market designer scents is the inevitable wave of innumerable flankers and seasonal releases that follow. This summer, however, I was very pleased to find quite a few very well made ones. Sport and summer epithets do not necessarily mean bad…as you will see
I have just secured myself a centre court ticket for this year’s French Open at Stade Roland Garros in Paris, combining fragrance and tennis in one trip. I don’t think it gets much better than this.
