Many perfumes attempt to capture the feeling of love. Many, I am sad to say, miss the mark. A relative newcomer Mercedes Ganon and her first release Jus d’Amour does its name justice.
The perfumer Juliet Stewart works with on her Juliet fragrances Lorenzo Dante Ferro enjoyed taking what is a modern floriental Eau de Parfum which is more floral than oriental and switching it up for the Juliet Extrait making it more oriental than floral.
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.
KEROSENE Fragrances Unknown Pleasures contains nothing but delicious foodstuffs (and drinks) and creates one of the most interesting gourmand vanilla scents I have had the pleasure of sniffing in a long time.
The line is called Artemisia, all-natural fragrances by perfumer Lisa Fong. I have selected a few scents, Saveur de L,’Abricot, Eros, and Ondine from the line that impressed me in one way or another to introduce to you.
