I think what Providence Perfume Company’s Charna Ethier set out to create was a modern vintage perfume which emulated the richness of Youth Dew while holding out a bit of the brightness of Divine and if that was the desire Divine Noir succeeds on both of those levels.
The sublime Dama Bianca is the seventh installment of the Xerjoff Casamorati collection. The mix of Dama Bianca the fragrance and Xerjoff’s description brings me back to my journey to Italy to visit my family.
The times are few where my chemistry geek side and my perfume geek side overlap. One of the places has been the existence of the Mane Jungle Essence technology. When I received the new Etat Libre d’Orange Dangerous Complicity the note list led off with three notes containing the JE initials and I thought this would be a good chance to see this in action.
Christopher Brosius. The very mention of his name is synonymous with “thinking outside the box”. What this man does is simply amazing. His second newest scent, Where We Are There Is No Here (#405, his fifth from the Metamorphosis or “M” series) is no different.
“Afternoon of a Faun” has been translated into music, by Debussy, and ballet, by several, but most notoriously by the famous Russian dancer Nijinsky. His faun was scandalous, and I would have loved to see it. Now the whole package of poem, music and dance has been interpreted by perfumer Ralf Schweiger for Etat Libre D’orange
I would have to say that one of my favorite people in all of perfumery is Victoria Christian the daughter of Clive Christian. I have had the great pleasure of meeting her a few times and every time I walk away thinking what a fun, intelligent, and sophisticated person she is. There are two new Clive Christian fragrances which are named after her simply called V for Men and V for Women.
