BLUEHILL Fragrances Ivy League is a purist, naturalist’s fragrance – invigorating, tonic and a breath of fresh air in a year positively crammed full of gourmand comfort perfumes.
The Ghost in A Shell by Etat Libre D’Orange’s spot-on visual ad, a very tactile bottle, will surely be “the talk of the (cyber) town” this autumn.
Naomi Goodsir Corpus Equus, which took eight years to complete, Bertrand Duchaufour was inspired by Pierre Soulages “Outrenoirs.” Leather is the very heart of the fragrance and is a homage of Naomi Goodsir and the white Arabian thoroughbred that she rode for many years in competitions. The notes were explained leather, rose petals, horse dung, gin and cigarette ashes.
Principal Parfumeur Daphné Bugey signed Crepusculum Mirabile by L’Artisan Parfumeur and Obscuratio which are new to the “La Botanique Collection” for 2021
Olivier Durbano Quartz Quantic, the 17th perfume by Oliver Durbano, is a fragrance of gold; of brilliant but beneficent light, of marigold flowers giggling in the breeze, of living things reaching towards the sun. Olivier Durbano writes, “For a year … I have felt a great awakening.”
But Jasminium sambac? What struck me most was that I’d only ever smelled it from a bottle and never from a live plant
