Best of Show Esxence 2018 Perfume Winner -Michelyn’s Picks

Best of Show Esxence 2018: Timeless Elegance: Fragrances that will stand the test of time and based on neo-classical construction. In this category of course is Fath L’Iris de Fath. Masque Milano’s (homage to Hemingway) by Fanny Bal of IFF with its beautiful use of three vetiver extractions and a sparkling ginger bubbling at the top is a fragrance that could …

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Pierre Balmain Élysées 64-83 (Germaine Cellier) 1946 – Vintage Perfume Review + A Rare Fragrance Draw

Pierre Balmain on the phone  (1914-1982)  Getty Pierre Balmain notes in his autobiography My Years and Seasons – that “My friend, Germaine Cellier, had just invented a perfume for me which evoked the best kind of elegance of which I wanted to be the harbinger. I named it Élysées 64-83, my first telephone number.” Rene Gruau How might any …

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