L’Artisan Parfumeur Crepusculum Mirabile (Daphne Bugey) 2021 + A Midsummer Night’s Dream draw

September 23, 2021September 23, 2021

There are only three listed notes for L’Artisan Parfumeur Crepusculum Mirabile from La Botanique Collection (Incredible Twilight) – jasmine, sandalwood and tonka bean; the number 63 representing “sixty-three” mods are indicated on its label. The storytelling is about summer nights when nature is bathed and heated by the hot sun during the day. Daphne Buguey is the perfumer and English artist Katie Scott created all the visuals and graphics

Parallax Olfactory Nimbis by Linda Sivrican Winner

September 23, 2021October 6, 2021

Perfumer Linda Sivrican created Parallax Olfactory Nimbis to mimic the scent of falling meteors. Just like a meteor, it does not linger. She is the owner of Capsule Parfumerie and the 2020 Art and Olfaction award winner in the artisan category

Best Autumn Perfumes 2021 + Part 2 Fall Equinox draw

September 22, 2021September 19, 2024

September 22, 2020, the autumnal equinox the time in the earth’s annual cycle around the sun in which day and night are equal in length. Even during these strange almost surreal times we all find comfort in our favorite autumn perfumes 2021, including L’Artisan Parfumeur Mandarina Corsica, Strangelove meltmyheart, Visiteur Parfums Cabernet Nocturne, Amouroud Safran rare, Bogue Profumo MEM

Best Fall Fragrances 2021 + Part 1 draw

September 21, 2021September 22, 2021

The summer of 2021 was one to remember…or maybe forget. The world experienced the wrath of the weather gods, with torrential rains, hurricanes, hail, wildfires, tornadoes, flooding, wicked winds. record breaking heatwaves, extreme variances in temperatures. All this was compounded by Covid Delta variant, political unrest and too many late night zoom meetings. Now that Autumn is here, we breathe a collective sigh of relief. The Best fall fragrances 2021 include Mona di Orio Ambre, DSH Perfumes Foxy, CHANEL Coromandal, D:Sol Terram, Ramon Monegal Ole and Hermetica Redmoon

Heliotrope by Olivier Durbano Winner

September 21, 2021September 21, 2021

Heliotrope is usually a combination of two very different minerals: green jasper (cool, light, glassy) with hematite, which appears as red (warm, heavy, iron-rich). This naturally occurring juxtaposition in stone was perfectly, expertly nuanced into one complex, interesting, and elegant smell in Heliotrope by Olivier Durbano

Corfu by MEMO Paris Review (Phillipe Paparella ) 2021+ Island on the Ionian Sea Draw

September 20, 2021September 20, 2021

The plains of Java, the Quartier Latin in Paris the lush Ilha Do Mel, off the coast of Rio de Janeiro are some of the scents of place that MEMO Paris co-founder and creative director Clara Malloy have transported us to through the Graines de Vagabondes collection. Now in 2021, Madame Molloy along with perfumer Phillipe Paparella take us to Corfu, Greece. In these uncertain times, for many of us our only travel is through a bottle, Corfu by Memo Paris takes us to paradise on the Ionian Sea