I work around emotions. My perfumes are an invitation to explore the most complex & mysterious of empires: the realm of the senses. The greatest civilizations have always looked for the noblest extracts for two main reasons: to celebrate gods or to seduce -MARC-ANTOINE CORTICCHIATO of Parfums D’Empires
She reached into her purse and brought out a lab sample and asked me if this was what I was talking about. From the moment she placed a dab on my skin, I kept sniffing it; and realized this was exactly what I meant. Cologne architecture using bold heady notes. That day back in April this fragrance didn’t have a name. Today it is the brand-new seventh Atelier Cologne release Ambre Nue by perfumer Ralf Schweiger.
Many natural perfumers make only EDP and perfume oil concentrations. Adam Gottschalk of Lord’s Jester has taken his scents and retooled many of them into varying strengths. These range from EDC to EDT and EDP, and also perfumed solids.Now, much to my delight, he has gone one step further and rendered two of his mythical perfumes, Daphen and Anthea, into Extrait strength.
In 1992 perfume history was made. Perfumers Olivier Cresp and Yves de Chirin collaborated on and Parfums Mugler released what would become one of the best-selling perfumes in the world. A polarizing scent people (usually) either love or hate. We have a draw for the EDP
When I played twenty questions as a kid the first part of the game was to identify whether the object being described was Animal, Vegetable or Mineral. Gerald Ghislain has released a new three fragrance series under his Histoires de Parfums label called Edition Rare, Ambrarem, rosam, and Petroleum. In this game of fragrant twenty questions M Ghislain uses oud to interrogate three different compositions and come up with the appropriate answer.
MaryBeth, Tama and Michelyn select their favorite cold weather scents with a draw to thaw over from Guerlain, Ineke, Keiko Mecheri, Mona Di Orio, Shelley Waddington, Yosh Han and Xerjoff
