ÇaFleureBon Behind The Bottle: Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s Mystery Of Musk Journey

Dawn Spencer Hurwitz has created fragrant jazz with her work on The Mystery Of Musk project and it is beautiful music of the most fragrant kind.
If you would like to take the same journey I’ve described for yourself, all of these versions are available on Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s website (https://www.dshperfumes.com/ ) in 30% perfume concentrations. I found all of them to have excellent longevity and modest sillage

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Sniff and Sip: An Oenophile Compares Notes Courtesy of Jo Malone and Domaine Carneros

    There is a certain taboo within wine circles that one does not mix fragrance with wine, (summed up pithily) to 'check your fragrance at the door'. You see, oenophiles don't appreciate perfume or cologne while sniffing, swirling, sipping (and often spitting).    Auerole, New York City   So, it was with both skepticism and a bit of curiosity when I received an invitation to …

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Flanker Roundup:The Best of Men’s Summer Spin-offs

Ever since Christian Dior spun-off Miss Dior into Miss Dior Cherie and Chanel  transformed Coco into the top selling Coco Mademoiselle, the fragrance industry has seen a plethora of flankers. Flankers are new formulations of a familiar fragrance with enough of the original DNA present to be identifiable and enough new ingredients to make you think you …

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