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.
Vetiver essential oil is an important component in perfumery & is one the most difficult substances for chemists to replicate, it is surrounded by legends, folklore and hoodoo. TY Mona di Orio, Xerjoff,L’ArtisanParfumeur,40notes, Six Scents,Le Labo, Robert Piguet,Elise Pearlstine, JoAnne Bassett , Christi Meshell and more
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
This month’s spilled perfume draw theme is British Perfumery. To celebrate the 2012 Olympic Games in London we salute nine fragrance leaders who were born in Great Britian or live there now. Go for the gold, silver and bronze
