Behind the Bottle, although it started the same way in concept. At the recent Sniffapalooza Spring Fling 2011 I had a chance to smell the parfum version of the modern reformulation of Houbigant Fougere Royale. I had named the Eau de Parfum version of Fougere Royale one of my top new fragrances of 2010
New Zealand is far from the traditional European centers of perfumery but Francesca Brice and Kate Jason Smith are showing that creativity in the 8th art knows no borders
M. Fraysse evokes the entire garden milieu from the roses to the greenery surrounding them to the little pond with koi swimming inside. Imagine yourself on the bench, with the sun high above, closing your eyes and breathing deep; that is the experience of wearing Delire de Roses.
The concept of “America” to me is wrapped up in the idea of Freedom and the Spirit of Independence.-Kedra Hart of Opus Oils
Francesca Brice and Kate Jason Smith supplied us with six crème perfumes fromPacific Perfumes “The Original Range”. Out of these six fragrances there were two that really stood out for me but I found all of them had something worth experiencing.
Then there are the very infrequent times when I get something which treads the rose garden path but finds a way to display the rose slightly differently and like the best artists within a genre add their own nuance to the oeuvre. Richard Fraysse, the in-house nose for Caron, has done that with the new Caron fountain fragrance Delire de Roses.
