When I recently received three samples from the Portland, Oregon based Slumberhouse the concept of creating perfume outside the mainstream took hold a little more firmly because when I tried Kote, Mur, and Verg I thought that this might actually be the first real example of olfactory outsider art.
“Valentina” is meant to evoke young Italian heiresses- the ‘it girls’ who are flocking to wear the new haute couture under the House’s new creative directors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli .Danish model Freja Beha will be the face of Valentina
I have never been to the South Pacific and yet after wearing Tahitian Honey I somehow feel as if I have. Vacances takes me to a different island milieu in the Caribbean. Both are truly spectacular composition by Alexandra Balahoutis of Strange Invisible Perfumes.
Amber was made for the Arnhem Mode Biennale 2011 a contemporary exhibition of fashion and the theme for this year was, Amber. By making a contemporary perfume which feels like something from the past ,Six Scents and Darryl Do have created something special.
Mandy Aftel has chosen “high and bright” to describe her new fragrance, Haute Claire , a scent born of recent correspondence with fellow perfumer Liz Zorn, A fragrance named for the burnished steel sword [replete with crystal imbedded in its golden hilt] brandished by Paladin Olivier in the Chanson de Roland?
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As America is the great melting pot we can take inspiration from everywhere in our world to give it voice and new cultural significance. I believe we are currently experiencing a new Renaissance of niche perfumery and American perfumery simultaneously. It is very exciting.
