Aether Arts Perfume Black Hole Review (Amber Jobin) 2021 + Falling Weightless Draw

Aether Arts Perfume Black Hole, by Amber Jobin, (the third in the Pandemic series which includes The Space Between and Contact) poses an inherent contradiction: turning an exploration of the unknowable into fragrance. But Black Hole is more than an intellectual exercise of creating something out of the ultimate nothing; it is also a sly olfactory rendering of “all the craziness that was/is 2020-2021.”

Continue Reading

Parfumeurs du Monde Petite Fumée (Bertrand Duchaufour) and Les Larmes d’Aden (Thierry Bernard) 2021 + the New Natural draw

Parfumeurs du Monde Petite Fumée (Bertrand Duchaufour) and Les Larmes d’Aden (Thierry Bernard) 2021

Parfumeurs du Monde Petite Fumée by Bertrand Duchaufour was inspired by the Book the Teachings of Don Juan and is new to the brand. Les Larmes d’Aden by brand founder and perfumer, Thierry Bernard, puts Incense is at the center chose to reproduce as faithfully as possible the Temple of Jerusalem Ketoret incense, rich in 11 ingredients, for some almost impossible to find.

Continue Reading

Aedes de Venustas 16a Orchard Review (Frank Voekl) 2021 + A Time of Reinvention Draw

Aedes de Venustas 16a Orchard review

The experience of Aedes de Venustas 16a Orchard is a bit like getting lost in a modern art gallery where all the exhibits are watercolour. The notes shimmer individually then merge, separating and joining in a continuous loop that makes me think of Calder’s elegantly kinetic pieces. Frank Voelkl has created a perfectly pitched composition in which is bright and scintillant one moment, dreamy and hazy the next. Its feel is neither urban nor nature but both.

Continue Reading