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.
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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In all forms of art it is a special thrill when you find someone you think is going to have a special career and when it comes to perfume I think I might have found a similar precocious talent. Jessica September Buchanan has released her second fragrance Fleur No. 1 Ca fleure TRES bon!
Mme di Orio has chosen two of the most ubiquitous notes in perfumery. Mme di Orio takes both of these common ingredients and in both Veyver and Vanille manages to make them feel uncommonly good.
