The language associated with scent is complex, largely French, hard to pronounce, and often as overwrought as descriptions of fine wine. Brent Leonesio has done all of us a favor with his new fragrance collection, Vocabulary. He has created six perfumes, each representing a basic fragrance category.
As early as the the third century, Romans built elaborate bath houses. It is from these ancient origins that the founders behind a beautiful line of bath and shower products, Palatium, drew their inspiration .
Opus VI reinvents the convential amber scent, and the drydown is a fusion of disturbing elements and accords.
Christopher Chong was inspired by the movie The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for the new perfume
where the intent was to simulate the sentiment of loss
Every four years a strange thing happens. We have an extra day in the month of February. This year, I thought it would be fun to look back at some very interesting perfumes that have “gone the way of the dodo”, as it were. Oh, they are still available (here and there) but now that they are “lost” (no longer in production).
The last fragrance from Etienne de Swardt and Etat Libre D’Orange was Archives 69 by Christine Nagel was launched over a year ago. The Company has launched two new scents in Europe, with one ready to debut soon in the U.S.
One of the things that drew me to Oriflame was the word “natural”. When I first heard about them I was intrigued with the names of their scents: Amethyst Fatale, Eclat (radiance), and Free Motion. From what I have tried, I would say that this company’s fragrances are better than Avon’s and some of the modern Yves Rochers are.
