I am a lover of jazz and when you listen to jazz there are moments when you know you are hearing something different. One jazz pioneer who I admire is Dizzy Gillespie and when I started listening to his music there was a piece, when I heard it, that seemed to represent the turning …
Parisian summer nights are too romantic to be resisted. The bright lights and vibrating Paris night life are intoxicating, almost hypnotic. They have a kind of transparent grace about them, a secret sensuality, a disturbing magic that electrifies the senses. With NUIT DE TUBEREUSE, L’Artisan Parfumeur, the daring alchemist, working with master perfumer …
MC: Scent, memory, literature, film, cuisine… Cafleurebon invites you to partake of the Brazilian culture through the nose and writing of Simone Shitrit , guest blogger. I know that when I smell L Lolita again, it will take on a new meaning for me… it will be more than a perfume, but a place and time; I will be transported. Fragrância é …
When it comes to the independent perfumer community, there is a group of talented artists who create interesting fragrances time and again. Dawn Spencer Hurwitz is one of the members of that group for me and her latest release Bancha rewards my assessment. Although the name did not prepare me for the fragrance I would eventually …
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be involved in the birth of a new fragrance? Like many perfumistos, the idea is intriguing. I was fortunate to be the proud godfather to Sonoma Scent Studio’s latest –Incense Pure. It started, as so many things do in these days of the internet, with …
Ahhhh, I remember my first experience creating “perfume” as a kid with a toy set. The fragrance I created had a cotton candy top note, a heart of plastic Barbie head and a drydown of playdough. I may be able to write about perfumery, talk shop with perfumer friends, but I never really learned how to created a fine fragrance from top down. …
