Kiss My Name by Ramon Monegal blooms on the skin exuberant, glistening, like a ray of light bouncing between mirrors, creating the most delicious golden kaleidoscope, uncovering new facets with every angle of its rotation.
Jo Malone Silver Birch & Lavender personifies Coco Chanel’s opinion that simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance – pristine in an argentine fashion, all shimmer and sleek freshness. A well-tailored item retains its value, and in the skilled hands of senior perfumer Yann Vasnier of Givaudan, this cologne not only mirrors the crispness of the season, it will work perfectly well year ‘round: tonic in spring, refreshing in summer, and elegiac in the autumn.
Aether Arts Perfume Black Hole, by Amber Jobin, (the third in the Pandemic series which includes The Space Between and Contact) poses an inherent contradiction: turning an exploration of the unknowable into fragrance. But Black Hole is more than an intellectual exercise of creating something out of the ultimate nothing; it is also a sly olfactory rendering of “all the craziness that was/is 2020-2021.”
Unlike many perfumes stores Parfums Raffy offers a wide variety of fragrances that include classic fragrances that have been around for a hundred years or more to new designer and the hottest niche brands entering the market. In owner Raffy Dobakian’s opinion we are in the golden age of perfumery and we are all lucky to be living through it!
Aromatic and dreamlike, Maison Crivelli Bois Datchai by Dorothee Piot is a sweet resinous spice fest of freshly cut wood on a chilly day. Bois Datchai greets you with a piercing aroma of freshly muddled blackcurrant buds and a comforting whiff of steaming black tea
Maison Tahite Cacao2 is a spicy woody take on cacao that feels like an indulgent trip to the sweet section of the local bio raw vegan shop, created by David Maruitte, featuring notes of cinnamon, labdanum, toasted notes of cacao, vanilla, and amber.
