I work around emotions. My perfumes are an invitation to explore the most complex & mysterious of empires: the realm of the senses. The greatest civilizations have always looked for the noblest extracts for two main reasons: to celebrate gods or to seduce -MARC-ANTOINE CORTICCHIATO of Parfums D’Empires
I got the chance to try two of the new London Blooms collection, Peony & Moss and White Lilac & Rhubarb. Both of these are very different intersections as Peony & Moss is a green synergy and White Lilac & Rhubarb is a crossroads of floral and vegetal.
In 1992 perfume history was made. Perfumers Olivier Cresp and Yves de Chirin collaborated on and Parfums Mugler released what would become one of the best-selling perfumes in the world. A polarizing scent people (usually) either love or hate. We have a draw for the EDP
When I played twenty questions as a kid the first part of the game was to identify whether the object being described was Animal, Vegetable or Mineral. Gerald Ghislain has released a new three fragrance series under his Histoires de Parfums label called Edition Rare, Ambrarem, rosam, and Petroleum. In this game of fragrant twenty questions M Ghislain uses oud to interrogate three different compositions and come up with the appropriate answer.
Maria-Candida Gentile was one of the perfumers I wanted to meet at Pitti Fragranze 2011 in Florence. I had never smelt her perfumes, just read some great reviews by others. So when we met, I began to smell all the perfumes first, and was really surprised that the perfumer was there too!
One of my favorite ongoing collections is that being done by Mathilde Laurent, the in-house perfumer for Cartier. It is called the Les Heures de Cartier and in what will be an eventual 13-fragrance collection the ninth entry has just been released. Mme Laurent is not going in order and she is skipping around the clockface as she releases each one. This one represents II and is called L’Heure Convoiteé (The Coveted Hour).
