Comme des Garcons 2 Man was my first lesson that the boundaries which framed a perfumer’s ingredient choices were truly unlimited because the truly innovative, like Mark Buxton, will find ways to make the unloved, lovely.
Adam Levine, the front man of Maroon 5 and star of The Voice will debut The Scent. Rather The Scents. And he is taking the launch of a fragrance for women and one for men seriously
Late last year, Giorgio Armani released Acqua di Gio Essenza. It was to be a more streamlined updated version of the original. Part of me was very excited to try this another part was a little afraid to smell it and be disappointed. Alberto Morillas did not let me down
Fashion designer, model, and Hollywood stylist L’Wren Scott has launched her first fragrance. Her self-titled debut is a spicy chypre with a floral heart that, much like Ms. Scott, is multi-faceted and can’t truly be categorized.
Rima XI is the new Carner Barcelona release and its name is taken from the Spanish poem by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer of the same name. I was especially intrigued by a perfume which might capture “an impossible vain ghost of mist and light”.
At the beginning I wasn’t a creator of niche perfume brands, I was the nasty bastard giving briefs to perfumers at LMVH. I choose a perfumer by their grasp of the concept I have. For example: Putains de Palais and Natalie Feisthauer. She said, “I want to be that slut”.-Etienne de Swardt, Etat Libre D’Orange
