Aftelier Perfumes Cepes and Tuberose Winner
Aftelier Perfumes Cepes and Tuberose, created by award winning natural perfumer Mandy Aftel in 2003 is an olfactory epiphany.
Voskanian Parfums Pêche Chyprée (Tsovak Voskanian) 2021 + “colorised memory” giveaway
Voskanian Parfums Pêche Chyprée smells like a perfect memory of a peach, like a black and white photo that has been scanned hi-res, added into a photoshop worksheet, and masterfully and painstakingly detailed colored back to life, its re-constructed memory being thousand times more beautiful than the original model.
The Zoo Everlasting Winner
The Zoo Everlasting isn’t shy in making its creators’ intentions clear. The first contact with my skin is intense: the fragrance almost forcefully wraps itself around me, and spins me around to its rhythm.
Rogue Perfumery Derviche II Review (Manuel Cross) 2021 + Don’t Hold Back Giveaway
Manuel Cross has brought an incredible amount of creative license to Rogue Perfumery Derviche II. His aim is to take us down the rabbit hole of artistic perfumery. Wear it when you into a room and you’ll hear whisper “what he is wearing”
Lotus Pear by The 7 Virtues Winner
Lotus Pear by The 7 Virtues proceeds help to fund a singular and unusual cause: Days For Girls, an international organization (in this particular instance, the locus is current-day Nepal) dedicated to the eradication of ignorance, stigmatization, poverty, lack of education and menstrual supplies.
Meo Fusciuni Encore du Temps (Giuseppe Imprezzabile) 2022+ Love in a Warm Climate Giveaway
Meo Fusciuni Encore du Temps is an intimate aromatic ode to both his beloved and their treasured memories of Indochina – Laos, in particular. Meo has been able to sustain some of his sojourn in Luang Prabang by planting osmanthus in his garden. Its autumnal blossoming rekindles that shared cup of tea on the terrace in times past, a floating tiny fragrant flower bobbing atop a transparent limpid loveliness.