“I think indie perfumery is important because it allows the perfumer to be the storyteller. The perfumer is regarded as an artist rather than a chemist. The idea of science and chemistry really intrigues people in the context of perfume, but I find it boring”. 14 50ml of SIP’s ‘ greatest hits’ are reader’s choice
We end our four part series for the Brave New World internet project with two distinctive natural Amber fragrances from Liz Cook and Elise Pearlstine ‘O brave new world!’ It was a challenge, a command.”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Ch. 15
remember all comments on any in the series count our towards “15ml” draw of Hermes, Jessimine,Royal Lotus, and Ambre Alcheme
If you went to High School in the US it is very likely Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel Brave New World made it on to your summer reading list at some point. The idea of a World State tightly controlled and seemingly idyllic until touched by a bit of “savagery” is one of the great novels …
Natural Perfume Editor Ida Meister reviews three of the Brave New Scents in The Natural Perfumers Guild internet project.
The young man suddenly realized that perfumes – said by the Party to smell like All Good Things – smelled like nothing. The old man shook his head.
“Perfumes don’t smell like this any more. They can’t. But they did.”
The young man held up the vial.
“What’s in it?”
“Only natural things.”
Nathalie Lorsen is the nose for Dita Von Teese’s Femme Fatale.Now she is beginning her next perfume project, a men’s fragrance
