In perfumery, the list of scent notes and accords available to work from is long and all-encompassing, from sweet blossoms to tar. It seems fairly inevitable that there will be a note or two we find incomprehensible, if not downright repellant. My difficulty has been in understanding one of the greatest perfumery notes of all: the noble iris
Many perfumistas heard the Jean Claude Ellena was writing a book several years ago. I was on a waiting list at Amazon.com for at least a year until I finally took it out of my cart.Well it’s back in!
Michel Roudnitska’s fragrances bring to life memories and sparks yearnings, both of the past and of thefuture. He is a defender of the perfumer as an artist, a topic we covered upon learning Dior changed some of his father’s greatest works.
Have you ever listened to “Summertime by Will Smith . Hey its summertime, roll down the windows and party withContributor Sergey Borisov and Managing Editor Mark Behnke as they give out some of their favorite warm-weather fragrances.
TY to our friends in fashion and beauty : Songbird/celebrity manicurist Deborah Lippmann, ‘Mane Man’ Ric Pipino, Heather Thomson of Yummie Tummie PART ONE fashion beauty 4 four DRAW
It was always my hope that Mark Birley would take another shot at making a men’s fragrance which would exude the private club kind of elegance where dinner jackets were required of the men. With Mark Birley’s death in 2007 I thought the opportunity had passed with the inspiration. Then late in 2010 Mark Birley For Men Charles Street was released.
