I am particularly smitten by both Camellia and Paradise Lost.
They reveal themselves very differently, but there is no doubt in my mind that a great deal of care, consideration, and tenderness went into their conception.
Keiko’s goal was to transport us to two very different climes:
The Japan of the delicate, velvety camellia, and the Goa of our sun-drenched dreams.
This fall Acqua di Parma will introduce a new fragrance in its Le Nobili collection: Gelsomino Nobile, the fragrance centers around an exclusive and highly unique species of Jasmine grown only in the Calabria region of Italy
In all forms of art it is a special thrill when you find someone you think is going to have a special career and when it comes to perfume I think I might have found a similar precocious talent. Jessica September Buchanan has released her second fragrance Fleur No. 1 Ca fleure TRES bon!
Michel Roudnitska’s fragrances bring to life memories and sparks yearnings, both of the past and of thefuture. He is a defender of the perfumer as an artist, a topic we covered upon learning Dior changed some of his father’s greatest works.
Last week, it was my pleasure to converse with soft-spoken Elise Pearlstine, the natural perfumer behind Bellyflowers Botanical Perfumes. Elise thoughtfully sent me her latest creation, Wild Chypre- composed with many wild-harvested plant absolutes, a perfume which evolved on its own. I frankly am mad for it; it is unusual and beautiful in a singular manner.
Decidedly cheerful, fairly linear, a greenly floral, transparent aquarelle-
Un Jardin Sur Le Toit surprised me with its good-fellowship last weekend at Sniffapalooza, where I sniffed it for the first time.
