Guerlain perfumes have been the permanent symbol of luxury in Russia since XIX century.So when I`ve heard some rumours about a new Guerlain perfume with a Russian background to be launched this year, I was overwhelmed by joy. At first you may not understand the connection. «Большой» и Guerlain – they seems so different! But think of it as a pas de deux
Liz Zorn said “The thing that I find most fascinating about American Perfumery today is the “Independent Spirit” of the lone perfumer creating an artistic body of work.” Her three latest releases are excellent examples of the way Ms. Zorn goes about creating fragrance and I found all three brought something different to the table
When I received the press release that Ineke Ruhland of Ineke Perfumer would be the next co-production, with Anthropologie, I smiled quite widely.Being a gentlemen, I asked Ida Meister to pick her two. That left me Angel’s Trumpet and Scarlet Larkspur My inner Gollum muttering contentedly muttered “my precioussss.”
When Anthropologie and Ineke Rűhland join forces, quality is a given. Anthropologie has shown itself to be innovative in the choices of fragrance which grace their artful boutiques- brick-and-mortar, and also on-line. Ineke has created four beautiful new fragrances- not a single “meh” among them.
Celine Verleure brought together three perfumers and three photographers along with an Internet community to create the three fragrances in the Olfactive Studio’s portfolio;.despite my skepticism about a process that had so much input it seems like in the end three very good fragrances were produced and I have enjoyed wearing all three of them
Behind the Bottle, although it started the same way in concept. At the recent Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2011 I had a chance to smell the parfum version of the modern reformulation of Houbigant Fougere Royale. I had named the Eau de Parfum version of Fougere Royale one of my top new fragrances of 2010
