True Creativity: inspired holiday gifts from independent perfumers with small businesses who offer authentic and unique offerings. For this gift guide, some ideas of what to buy – but also let you know what you might want to avoid.
Each of the fragrances from Atelier Materi’s portfolio is focused on a single natural raw material, selected from the best terroir and with respect for fair trade. Atelier Materi Santal Blond by Lucas Sieuzac is ideal for everyday wear, comfortable worn under your corporate suit and is gender fluid.
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.
J.U.S Parfums Bloomastral created by Alexandra Carlin is her third for the brand which now has twelve in its perfume collection. She chose a very specific jasmine: the wild and carnal Galant de Nuit, that doesn’t bloom until after sunset and is impossible to extract naturally.
With Euan McCall’s newest perfumes, Jorum Studio Elegy and Pentimento, one feels a wistful nostalgia which saturates them each with a luxurious neo-classicism bordering on tender melancholy. They couldn’t be more different from one another – which constitutes part of their charm.
There are four new fragrances in the Maison Tahité Officine Creative Profumi Cacao Collection: Cacao2: a spicy woody take on cacao created by David Maruitte; Carnal Cacao:. Gourmand and tuberose lovers will swoon at this creation of Paul Guerlain, Cacao Libertine: a carefree yet complex mix of sensual ambers and deep atmospheric florals created by David Maruitte,Maison Tahité Officine Creative Profumi Vicious Cacao is a salty, sweet dessert cake, prepared by Luca Maffei.
