OSCARS SPOTLIGHT PART 2: What Are You Wafting? + Guerlain Fragrance Red Carpet Draw

Like many of you Oscar night starts two hours prior to the ceremony as I sit down in front of my television to watch the fashion parade down the red carpet. I always await the moment when the interviewer asks “What are you wearing?” Of course the answer is about the dress she has on but just once I’d love to have an actress respond “Chanel No. 5 it’s my lucky scent. Oh you meant my dress its Chanel too.” I thought I might do a little research and try and figure out what fragrances might be present on the Red Carpet Sunday night.

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OSCAR SPOTLIGHT Part 1: Classic Fragrances in Classic Movie Moments + ‘Butterfield 8’ CaronTabac Blond Draw

Movies are one of our greatest forms of story telling time to give perfumes in Academy award nominated and winning films their ‘props’. Grace Kelly Hitchcock Rear Window (1954) declares, “A woman going anywhere but the hospital would always take perfume.. enter our OscarSpotlight MiNNewYork ‘Butterfield 8’ Caron Tabac Blond draw

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Hilde Soliani Conaffetto: A Complex Marriage Of Simplicity + Conaffeto Fragrance Draw

Hilde Soliani’s latest creation Conaffetto is another example of her skill at coaxing the unexpected out of three notes. Conaffetto was created for the wedding day of a close friend of Sig.ra Soliani. The ingredients in confetti candy, almond and sugar, are two of the three ingredients Sig.ra Soliani uses in Conaffetto. The third ingredient is orange blossom. This seems perfect for a wedding day fragrance.

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