Last year, Ragna Rostad-Ruffner of Divine Life Perfumes introduced me to one of my favorite rose scents, Dharma Rose. This year she gave me her two most recent rose scents, Trinity Rose and Rosita. Together the make a lovely trio of compelling fragrances that sit squarely in the “dark rose” genre.
Juliet’s statue and tomb in Verona, Italy is strewn with thousands of letters asking for advice on love; no one writes to Romeo. She is the symbol of love, of eternal youth and the all too fleeting nature of Spring and no perfumer captures Juliet as brillliantly as Alexandra Balahoutis.
For the new NEST White Narcisse Christophe Laudamiel defines what he considers fresh to be in creating a fresh floral fragrance that has something there besides generic fresh.
Late last year there was a rumor that she would be releasing a new IUNX fragrance. At the end of March 2013 this rumor turned out to be true as L’Arbre was released. L’Arbre is exactly what I hoped for as Mme Giacobetti turns sandalwood into something diaphanous but so full of structure it is endlessly fascinating.
The Fragrance Foundation has revealed its 2013 Finalists. The top five entries in each category were announced at the Finalist Breakfast, April 19 ,2013 at the Mandarin Oriental. The winners will be named at The Fragrance Foundation Awards 2013 on June 12 at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center.The event, hosted this year by actress …
A drop of pure sandalwood oil between your eyes enhances meditation. Use it in a perfume and it will be complex, lending depth and character.
Draws le labo, serge lutens, Lush gorilla, maitre parfumeur et gantier, anya’s garden, tallulah jane,House of matriarch, JoAnne Bassett, Tambela
